E. Phillips Oppenheim > Quotes

“Pooh!" she exclaimed. "Fancy asking a woman to be reasonable!”
― E. Phillips Oppenheim, The Double Traitor

“Fate makes queer uses of all of us sometimes. She sends her noblest sons down into the shadows and pitchforks her outcasts into the high places of life. Those do best who learn to control themselves, to live and think for the best.”
― E. Phillips Oppenheim, The Cinema Murder

“Other married people have lived together and hated each other. Why shouldn't we? We may forget even to hate.”
― Edward Phillips Oppenheim

“We may not even meet again, Francis, till the map of Europe has been rewritten with the blood of many of our friends and millions of our country-people.”
― E. Phillips Oppenheim, The Double Traitor

“You are charming," I answered. "You take my breath away. Indeed, Mademoiselle, I have never dined with anyone so charming.”
― E. Phillips Oppenheim, The Lost Ambassador; or, The Search for the Missing Delora

“كان ثَمة جَلَبةٌ كَوْنية غريبة من الأصوات المختلطة، ولكن
سادَ بين هذين الاثنَين صمتٌ رائع.”
― E. Phillips Oppenheim

“كان ثَمة جَلَبةٌ كَوْنية غريبة من الأصوات المختلطة، ولكن سادَ بين هذين الاثنَين صمتٌ رائع.”
― E. Phillips Oppenheim, ‫إغواء تافرنيك‬

“She smiled at me. It was wonderful what a difference the smile made in her face. To me she seemed at that moment radiantly beautiful.”
― E. Phillips Oppenheim, The Lost Ambassador; or, The Search for the Missing Delora

“أنتِ، على سبيل المثال، يا بياتريس، عاطفية للغاية. أما أنا فعملي جدًا. المال هو ما أريده. أريد المال لأن المال يعني النجاح.”
― E. Phillips Oppenheim, ‫إغواء تافرنيك‬

“WITH A SOMEWHAT PROLONGED GRINDING of the brakes and an unnecessary amount of fuss in the way of letting off steam, the afternoon train from London came to a standstill in the station at Detton Magna. An elderly porter, putting on his coat as he came, issued, with the dogged aid of one bound by custom to perform a hopeless mission, from the small, redbrick lamp room. The station master, occupying a position of vantage in front of the shed which enclosed the booking office, looked up and down the lifeless row of closed and streaming windows, with an expectancy dulled by daily disappointment, for the passengers who seldom alighted. On this occasion no records were broken. A solitary young man stepped out on to the wet and flinty platform, handed over the half of a third-class return ticket from London, passed through the two open doors and commenced to climb the long ascent which led into the town.”
― E. Phillips Oppenheim, The Cinema Murder

“It is not for you to understand," she answered. "You are not a policeman. You are not concerned in these things."

"I am concerned in you!" I cried passionately. "Felicia, you drive me almost wild when you talk like this. You know very well that it is not curiosity which has made me set my teeth and swear that I will discover the truth of these things. It is because I see you implicated in them, because I believe in you, Felicia, because I love you!”
― E. Phillips Oppenheim, The Lost Ambassador; or, The Search for the Missing Delora

“Sir Daniel Harker, a many years retired plenipotentiary to one of the smaller Powers, shrugged his shoulders.”
― E. Phillips Oppenheim, The Great Prince Shan

“Felicia was waiting for me, and for a moment I forgot to ask any questions- forgot everything except the pleasure of looking at her.”
― E. Phillips Oppenheim, The Lost Ambassador; or, The Search for the Missing Delora

“No empire has ever hewn its way to permanent glory by the sword alone.”
― E. Phillips Oppenheim, The Great Impersonation

“Before I was twenty-one years old, I had studied in most of the schools of modern philosophy, and had thrown off my religion like an old rag. I was inflated with a sense of my own intellectual superiority over other men. It was philosophy which taught men to live, I declared, and philosophy which taught them to die. With that motto before me, I carefully set myself to annihilate every vestige of faith with which I had ever been endowed. I succeeded—too well. It is dead; and sometimes I fear that it will never reawaken. And what am I? As miserable a man as ever drew breath upon this earth. It seems to me as though I had crushed a part of my very life and the sore will rankle for ever. “There is a part of man’s nature, Philip—that is to say, of such men as I have been and you will be—the sympathetic, emotional, reverential part, which cries out for some belief in a higher, an infinite Power, for some sort of religion which it can cling to and entwine with every action of daily life. You must satisfy that craving if you desire to know happiness. For me there is no such knowledge. I have deliberately committed spiritual suicide; I have torn up faith by the roots and have made a void in my heart, which nothing else can ever fill. Frankly, I tell you, Philip, that there are times when religion of any sort seems to me no better than a fairy-tale. It need not seem so to you. Shape out for yourself any form of belief—that of the Christian is as good as any other—and resolutely cling to it. It is my advice to you—mine who believe in no God and no future state. Follow it and farewell!” He held out his hand and clasped mine for a moment.”
― E. Phillips Oppenheim, E. Phillips Oppenheim Ultimate Collection: 72 Novels & 100+ Short Stories in One Volume