Love clamors far more incessantly and passionately at a closed gate than an open one! — Marie Corelli Chastity Copy Share Image
What was the use of trying to expound a truth, if the majority preferred a lie? — Marie Corelli Ifs Copy Share Image
Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks! — Marie Corelli Colour Copy Share Image
Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else. — Marie Corelli Great poet Copy Share Image
“any era that is dominated by the love of money only, has a rotten core within it and must perish” — Marie Corelli Love Copy Share Image
How foolish it would be if women did not obey men. The world would be all confusion! — Marie Corelli Confusion Copy Share Image
Wealth acts merely as a kind of mirror to show you human nature at its worst. — Marie Corelli Human nature Copy Share Image
An opinion which excites no opposition at all is not worth having! — Marie Corelli Opinion 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 Believe 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 Able 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 Clay Copy Share Image
A fine morning's killing, ay! All their necks wrung - all dead birds! Once they could fly - fly and swim! Fly… — Marie Corelli Bird Copy Share Image
I must not say what I truly think, or you will tell me I flatter you-but I can only speak what I… — Marie Corelli Feeling Copy Share Image
For though there never was so much reading matter put before the public, there was never less actual 'reading' in the truest… — Marie Corelli Highest Copy Share Image
the world is not always kind to a clever woman even when she is visibly known to be earning her own living.… — Marie Corelli Backgrounds Copy Share Image
“For is there any human sorrow so great that the blessing of mere daylight on the earth does not far exceed? We… — Marie Corelli Blessings Copy Share Image
“Had any one dared to say this truth to me then, I should have bade him go and preach nonsense to children,—but… — Marie Corelli Egoism Copy Share Image
“Now thou dost believe — henceforth thou must love! Love alone can pass yon flaming barrier — love alone can gain for… — Marie Corelli Drawn together Copy Share Image
Imagination is the supreme endowment of the poet and romanticist. It is a kind of second sight, which conveys the owner of… — Marie Corelli Circumstances Copy Share Image
One of the advantages or disadvantages of the way in which we live in these modern days is that we are ceasing… — Marie Corelli Advantage Copy Share Image
“There, the sublime, unreachable mysteries of the Universe are haggled over by poor finite minds who cannot call their lives their own.… — Marie Corelli Psychology Copy Share Image
“My aim throughout is to let facts speak for themselves. If they seem strange, unreal, even impossible, I can only say that… — Marie Corelli Life Copy Share Image
“We live in an age of universal inquiry, ergo of universal scepticism. The prophecies of the poet, the dreams of the philosopher… — Marie Corelli Human existence Copy Share Image
“Unbelief is nearly supreme in the world to-day. Were an angel to descend from heaven in the middle of a great square,… — Marie Corelli Angel Copy Share Image
“Suddenly the idea struck me that surely it was selfish to ask Heaven for anything; would it not be better to reflect… — Marie Corelli Gratitude Copy Share Image
“Go, all of you, scum of Paris!” he cried in his clear treble tones— “you who know neither God nor devil! You… — Marie Corelli Fiend Copy Share Image
“So you are tired of your life, young man! All the more reason have you to live. Anyone can die. A murderer… — Marie Corelli Death Copy Share Image
“Suicide during a state of temporary insanity,” is passed, have been caused by long and hopeless brooding on the “nothingness of the… — Marie Corelli Human 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
