Baroness Orczy Quotes & Sayings

It is only when we are very happy that we can bear to gaze merrily upon the vast and limitless expanse of water, rolling on and on with such persistent, irritating monotony, to the accompaniment of our thoughts, whether grave or gay. — Baroness Orczy

Music is the most absorbing of all the arts. It absorbs the mind of the artist, whether creator or executant, to the exclusion of every other consideration outside his own immediate necessities or desires. — Baroness Orczy

There is such wonderful balm in self-imposed sacrifice. — Baroness Orczy

Even the worst moments and the weariest journeys must come to an end ... — Baroness Orczy

Fate is usually swift when she deals a blow. — Baroness Orczy

To love, for us men, is to clasp one woman with our arms, feeling that she lives and breathes just as we do, suffers as we do, thinks with us, loves with us, and, above all, sins with us. — Baroness Orczy