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
And out of heart's pain comes heart's peace; and out of desire, accomplishment. — Marie Corelli Accomplishment Copy Share Image
What was the use of trying to expound a truth, if the majority preferred a lie? — Marie Corelli 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
Love clamors far more incessantly and passionately at a closed gate than an open one! — Marie Corelli Chastity 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
The Press nowadays is not a literary press; classic diction and brilliancy of style do not distinguish it by any means. — 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
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
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
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
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
“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 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
“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
“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
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 world is not always kind to a clever woman even when she is visibly known to be earning her own living.… — Marie Corelli 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
“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
“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
“Suddenly the idea struck me that surely it was selfish to ask Heaven for anything; would it not be better to reflect… — Marie Corelli Appreciation 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
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
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
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
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
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
For though there never was so much reading matter put before the public, there was never less actual 'reading' in the truest… — Marie Corelli 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 Copy Share Image
