Quotes from Anna Katharine Green

Hath the spirit of all beauty Kissed you in the path of duty?

It would never do for me to lose my wits in the presence of a man who had none too many of his own.

It was the smile which runs before a promise.

Hath the spirit of all beauty Kissed you in the path of duty?

me if I did!" ejaculated the coroner.

I tried to divert myself by reading, and I think my love for books which presently grew into a passion had its inception in that monotonous succession of day after day without a break in the suspense which held me like a hand upon my throat.

If one had irreparably injured a fellow-being, it would be hard for a person of sensitive nature to live a happy life afterwards; though the fact of not living a happy life ought to be no reason why one should not live a good life.

We find what we have been told to search for;

The smile he gave me in reply would have made the fortune of a Thespian Mephistopheles.

the path of rectitude is a straight one, and that he who steps into devious byways is going astray.

What he saw has already been partially described. But details will not be amiss here, as the house and its surroundings were really unique, and bespoke an antiquity of which few dwellings can now boast even in the most historic parts of Connecticut.

I am glad something happened to give you what you wanted.

Oh the hunger in his stare!

My son, remember that a woman with a secret may be a fascinating study, but she can never be a safe, nor even satisfactory, companion.

He who steps on stones is glad to feel the smallest spray of moss beneath his feet.

Though I have had no adventures, I feel capable of them.

It would never do for me to lose my wits in the presence of a man who had none too many of his own.

Perfect beauty is so rare, its effect so magical!

There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration.

I am a comfortable sort of person when alone, and found no difficulty in passing this time profitably. Being very orderly, as you must have remarked, I have everything at hand for making myself a cup of tea at any time of day or night;

It is not for me to suspect but to detect.

I wondered if I were glad or sorry to see it—if I were more pleased with his loyalty to his absent employer, or disappointed that my presence had not made everybody else forgotten.

Guilt has no right to profit by the generosity of the guiltless.

Men are strange beings, and must not be judged by rules that apply to women.