Quotes by : Emmuska Orczy

The present is not so glorious but that I should wish to dwell a little in the past.

The chairs - turned towards one another in groups of twos and threes - seemed like the seats of ghosts....

... you know my belief in bald-headed Fortune, with the one solitary hair. Well, I meant to grab that....

His pride and her beauty had been in direct conflict, and his pride had remained the conqueror.

Had he but turned back then, and looked out once more on to the rose-lit garden, she would have seen....

Anonymity crowned him as if t'were the halo of romantic glory.

Dear heart,” he murmured, “do not look on me with those dear, scared eyes of yours. If there is aught....

I have so often been asked the question: "But how did you come to think of The Scarlet Pimpernel?" And....

...women have done strange things; they are a far greater puzzle to the student of human nature than....

I wished to test your love for me, and it did not bear the test. You used to tell me that you drew the....