“A faithless and perverse generation asketh for a sign, and no sign shall be given unto them.” — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
Greatness is always envied - it is only mediocrity that can boast of a host of friends. — Marie Corelli Boast Copy Share Image
Nothing gives small minds a better handle for hatred than superiority. — Marie Corelli Envy Copy Share Image
An opinion which excites no opposition at all is not worth having! — Marie Corelli Opinion Copy Share Image
work is happiness. No one can take my work from me and therefore no one can take my happiness from me. — Marie Corelli Happiness Copy Share Image
When one loves God better than the Church is one called a heretic? — Marie Corelli Church Copy Share Image
I never married because I have three pets at home that answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog… — Marie Corelli Every morning Copy Share Image
No one is contented in this world, I believe. There is always something left to desire, and the last thing longed for… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
Nothing is so deceptive as human reasoning, - nothing so slippery and reversible as what we have decided to call 'logic.' The… — Marie Corelli Compass Copy Share Image
Patriotism is understood to be that virtue which consists in serving one's country; but in what way is this 'Patria' or country… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
If we choose to be no more than clods of clay, then we shall be used as clods of clay for braver… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
If we choose to be no more than clods of clay, then we shall be used as clods of day for braver… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
Pleasure for others is the only pleasure possible to me. I assure you I'm quite selfish! - I'm greedy for the happiness… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
I entirely agree with you about the obscurity of Mrs Browning's line about the stars. It is far-fetched. She wanted to express… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
“In these enlightened times, mademoiselle, we only believe what is agreeable to us, and what suits our own wishes, tastes, and opinions.… — Marie Corelli Enlightened Copy Share Image
... though a dealer in meat, groceries, and other food stuffs may obtain compensation if his wares are wilfully misrepresented to the… — Marie Corelli Buying Copy Share Image
“the swinging pendulum of HUMAN WILL, which decides our fate. God does not choose for us, or compel our love — we… — Marie Corelli Choice Copy Share Image
Fame, or notoriety, whichever that special noise may be called when the world like a hound 'gives tongue' and announces that the… — Marie Corelli Aloofness Copy Share Image
“The finest actor is he who play the comedy of life perfectly, as i aspire to do. To walk well, talk well,… — Marie Corelli Acting Copy Share Image
“Beauty combined with wantonness frequently ends in the drawn twitch, fixed eye and helpless limbs of life-in-death. It is Nature’s revenge on… — Marie Corelli Beauty Copy Share Image
“Never shall I forget the exquisite sensation I experienced! I can only describe it as the poor little Doll’s Dressmaker in “Our… — Marie Corelli Angel Copy Share Image
“Let us go hence and rest; she will not love. She shall not hear us if we sing hereof, Nor see love’s… — Marie Corelli Love Copy Share Image
“There, wealth is a god, and the greed of gain a virtue. There, genius starves, and heroism dies unrewarded. There, faith is… — Marie Corelli Faith Copy Share Image
“If you propound to these theorists the eternal question WHY? — why is the world in existence? why is there a universe?… — Marie Corelli Life Copy Share Image
“I beg your earnest attention, mademoiselle, for what I say concerning THE RARE FEW WITH WHOM THE SOUL IS EVERYTHING. YOU are… — Marie Corelli Life Copy Share Image
“You have been led astray, my child, by the conflicting and vain opinions of mankind. You, like many others in the world,… — Marie Corelli Children Copy Share Image
“How many bottles of your tastily prepared and expensive medicines have I not swallowed, in blind confidence and blinder ignorance of the… — Marie Corelli Confidence Copy Share Image
“I am going to make you what you may perhaps consider rather a singular proposition. It is this, that if you don’t… — Marie Corelli Faustian Copy Share Image
“If men were true to their immortal instincts and to the God that made them,—if they were generous, honest, fearless, faithful, reverent,… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
“Few authors feel sufficiently themselves to make others ''feel” — Marie Corelli Authors Copy Share Image
in my opinion, the Divine is revealed to all men once at least in their lives. — Marie Corelli Divine Copy Share Image
the beginning of my history is - love. It is the beginning of every man and every woman's history, if they are… — Marie Corelli Beginning Copy Share Image
The Church is a system, - but whether it is as much founded on the teaching of our Lord, who was divine,… — Marie Corelli Church Copy Share Image
The Browning love story? It is an ideal, all too rare, and yet I hardly think it strange. It would have been… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
it seems a silly kind o' business to bring us into the world at all for no special reason 'cept to take… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
What a fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy. — Marie Corelli Fool Copy Share Image
You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work; and you have so much beautiful work to… — Marie Corelli Beautiful Copy Share Image
Love, if it be love indeed, asks no permission as to where it shall seek vantage ground or gain its victory -… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
