--- title: "Best Marie Corelli Sayings" description: "Mary Mackay, also called Minnie Mackey and known by her pseudonym Marie Corelli, was an English novelist. Browse 90 Marie Corelli quotes." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b016/author-marie-corelli-63773.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Marie Corelli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b016/author-marie-corelli-63773.jpg) # Marie Corelli (1855–1924) Writer United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland **90** quotes in **380** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Marie Corelli was a writer from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. ## Quick Facts About Marie Corelli Born May 1, 1855 Died April 24, 1924 Nationality United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Profession Writer Notable works The sorrows of Satan, or, The strange experience of one Geoffrey Tempest, millionaire ; a romance ## About Marie Corelli Mary Mackay, also called Minnie Mackey and known by her pseudonym Marie Corelli, was an English novelist. ## Quotes by Marie Corelli · Page 3 > [Years should be nothing to you. Who asked you to count them or consider them? In the world of wild Nature, time…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marie-corelli/years-should-be-nothing-to-you-who-asked-you-to-count-them-or/) [Marie Corelli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marie-corelli/) [Bird](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bird/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9e2/marie-corelli-7507_bird_years-should-be-nothing-to-you-who-asked_3205296.jpg) > [Education! Is it education to teach the young that their chances of happiness depend on being richer than their neighbors? Yet that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marie-corelli/education-is-it-education-to-teach-the-young-that-their-chances-of/) [Marie Corelli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marie-corelli/) [Being successful](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/being-successful/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9f4/marie-corelli-7507_being-successful_education-is-it-education-to-teach-the-y_319786.jpg) > [Let me be mad, then, by all means! mad with the madness of Absinthe, the wildest, most luxurious madness in the world!…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marie-corelli/let-me-be-mad-then-by-all-means-mad-with-the-madness-of-absinthe-the/) [Marie Corelli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marie-corelli/) [Absinthe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/absinthe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1db/marie-corelli-7507_absinthe_let-me-be-mad-then-by-all-means-mad-with_2333861.jpg) > [“It is useless for you to consider the reason of this, or the meaning of that. Take things as they come in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marie-corelli/it-is-useless-for-you-to-consider-the-reason-of-this-or-the-meaning/) [Marie Corelli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marie-corelli/) [Reason](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/reason/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/99b/marie-corelli-7507_reason_it-is-useless-for-you-to-consider-the-re_2862248.jpg) > [There is nothing so depressing as a constant contemplation of one's self, and the greatest moral cowardice in the world's opinion comes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marie-corelli/there-is-nothing-so-depressing-as-a-constant-contemplation-of-one-s/) [Marie Corelli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marie-corelli/) [Constant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/constant/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9e6/marie-corelli-7507_constant_there-is-nothing-so-depressing-as-a-cons_431297.jpg) > [“Had any one dared to say this truth to me then, I should have bade him go and preach nonsense to children,—but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marie-corelli/had-any-one-dared-to-say-this-truth-to-me-then-i-should-have-bade-him/) [Marie Corelli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marie-corelli/) [Egoism](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/egoism/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c95/marie-corelli-7507_egoism_had-any-one-dared-to-say-this-truth-to-m_2223628.jpg) > [“For is there any human sorrow so great that the blessing of mere daylight on the earth does not far exceed? We…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marie-corelli/for-is-there-any-human-sorrow-so-great-that-the-blessing-of-mere/) [Marie Corelli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marie-corelli/) [Blessings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/blessings/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb7/marie-corelli-7507_blessings_for-is-there-any-human-sorrow-so-great-t_1618754.jpg) > [“Now thou dost believe — henceforth thou must love! Love alone can pass yon flaming barrier — love alone can gain for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marie-corelli/now-thou-dost-believe-henceforth-thou-must-love-love-alone-can-pass/) [Marie Corelli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marie-corelli/) [Drawn together](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/drawn-together/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e0/marie-corelli-7507_drawn-together_now-thou-dost-believe-henceforth-thou-mu_2529890.jpg) > [Imagination is the supreme endowment of the poet and romanticist. It is a kind of second sight, which conveys the owner of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marie-corelli/imagination-is-the-supreme-endowment-of-the-poet-and-romanticist-it/) [Marie Corelli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marie-corelli/) [Circumstances](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/circumstances/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/03e/marie-corelli-7507_circumstances_imagination-is-the-supreme-endowment-of_384196.jpg) > [One of the advantages or disadvantages of the way in which we live in these modern days is that we are ceasing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marie-corelli/one-of-the-advantages-or-disadvantages-of-the-way-in-which-we-live-in/) [Marie Corelli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marie-corelli/) [Advantage](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/advantage/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/01f/marie-corelli-7507_advantage_one-of-the-advantages-or-disadvantages-o_2050667.jpg) ## Marie Corelli by topic [Love (13)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/love/marie-corelli/) [World (12)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/world/marie-corelli/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marie-corelli/#itemlist", "name": "Marie Corelli Quotes", "numberOfItems": 10, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Years should be nothing to you. 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