Quotes by Anna Katharine Green

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

“You have said that if I declared my innocence you would believe me,” she exclaimed, lifting her head as I entered. “See here,” and laying her cheek against the pallid brow of her dead benefactor, she kissed the clay-cold lips softly, wildly, agonisedly, then, leaping to her feet, cried, in a subdued but thrilling tone: “Could I do that if I were guilty? Would not the breath freeze on my lips, the blood congeal in my veins, and my heart faint at this contact?””

“Don't put it into words. Let us leave some things to be understood, not said.””

“But Fate was in an impish mood that night.””

“Marriage founded upon deception can never lead to happiness.””

“You must never, in reckoning up an affair of murder like this, forget who it is that most profits by the deceased man's death.””

“We find what we have been told to search for;””

“Words can be said in a moment that will not be forgotten in years.””

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

“I wondered if I were glad or sorry to see it”

“Do we fear suffering or apathy most? Is it from experience or the monotony of a commonplace existence that we quickest flee?””

“Yet I was glad to see her weep, for only first offenders weep, and first offenders are amenable to influence, especially if they have been led into wrong by impulse, and are weak rather than wicked. Anxious””

“If you look long into human nature, you will see that the bonds which hold the firmest are not material ones, that an idea will make a man and mold a character, that it lies at the source of all heroisms, and is to be courted or feared, as the case may be.””

“You freeze””