Marie Corelli Quotes

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• Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!

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  Lovely, Delicacy, Thanks

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• Nothing gives small minds a better handle for hatred than superiority.

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  Giving, Envy, Hatred

  Marie Corelli (2015). “The Life Everlasting: A Reality of Romance”, p.211, The Floating Press

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• I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.

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  Funny, Marriage, Wedding

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• What a fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy.

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  Laughter, Thinking, Laughing

  Marie Corelli (2015). “The Life Everlasting: A Reality of Romance”, p.31, The Floating Press

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• Pleasure for others is the only pleasure possible to me. I assure you I'm quite selfish! - I'm greedy for the happiness of those I love - and if they can't or won't be happy I'm perfectly miserable.

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  Selfish, Miserable, Greedy

  Marie Corelli (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Marie Corelli (Illustrated)”, p.8930, Delphi Classics

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• Wealth acts merely as a kind of mirror to show you human nature at its worst.

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  Mirrors, Kind, Wealth

  Marie Corelli (2015). “The Sorrows of Satan”, p.123, Booklassic

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• What was the use of trying to expound a truth, if the majority preferred a lie?

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  Truth, Lying, Trying

  Marie Corelli (2015). “The Master Christian”, p.387, The Floating Press

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• There is nothing so inconvenient in this world as an absolutely truthful person, who can both speak and write, and has the courage of his convictions. One can always arrange matters with liars ... But with the man or woman who holds truth dearer than life, and honor more valuable than advancement, there is nothing to be done, now that governments cannot insist on the hemlock-cure, as in the case of Socrates.

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  Truth, Liars, Writing

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• Nothing is so deceptive as human reasoning, - nothing so slippery and reversible as what we have decided to call 'logic.' The truest compass of life is spiritual instinct.

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  Spiritual, Intuition, Logic

  Marie Corelli (2015). “The Master Christian”, p.154, The Floating Press

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• An opinion which excites no opposition at all is not worth having!

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  Opinion, Opposition

  Marie Corelli (2015). “The Master Christian”, p.58, The Floating Press

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• There is no wealth but love.

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  Love, Wealth

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• You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work; and you have so much beautiful work to do. The world needs it, and you must give it!

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  Beautiful, Hard Work, Kids

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• Love clamors far more incessantly and passionately at a closed gate than an open one!

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  Love, Resistance, Clamor

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• And out of heart's pain comes heart's peace; and out of desire, accomplishment.

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  Pain, Heart, Accomplishment

  Marie Corelli (1895). “The Soul of Lilith”, p.324, Library of Alexandria

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• The Church is a system, - but whether it is as much founded on the teaching of our Lord, who was divine, as on the teaching of St. Paul, who was not divine, is a question to me of much perplexity.

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  Teaching, Church, Lord

  Marie Corelli (2015). “The Master Christian”, p.58, The Floating Press

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• Greatness is always envied - it is only mediocrity that can boast of a host of friends.

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  Greatness, Envy, Mediocrity

  Marie Corelli (1972). “Free Opinions, Freely Expressed on Certain Phases of Modern Social Life and Conduct”, p.332, Health Research Books

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• Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else.

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  Littles, Poet, Great Poet

  Marie Corelli (1905). “Free Opinions, Freely Expressed on Certain Phases of Modern Social Life and Conduct”

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• Flowers are like visible messages from God.

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  Flower, Messages, Visible

  Marie Corelli (2015). “The Master Christian”, p.191, The Floating Press

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• No one is contented in this world, I believe. There is always something left to desire, and the last thing longed for always seems the most necessary to happiness.

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  Believe, Desire, Lasts

  Marie Corelli (2016). “A Romance of Two Worlds”, p.82, Marie Corelli

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• There is no Death,/What seems so is transition.

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  Grief, Transition, Seems

  Marie Corelli (2015). “The Life Everlasting: A Reality of Romance”, p.29, The Floating Press

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• When one loves God better than the Church is one called a heretic?

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  Church, God Love, One Love

  Marie Corelli (2015). “The Master Christian”, p.187, The Floating Press

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• How foolish it would be if women did not obey men. The world would be all confusion!

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  Men, Confusion, Would Be

  Marie Corelli (2015). “Thelma: A Norwegian Princess”, p.161, The Floating Press

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• Years should be nothing to you. Who asked you to count them or consider them? In the world of wild Nature, time is measured by seasons only-the bird does not know how old it is-the rose-tree does not count its birthdays!

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  Time, Years, Rose

  Marie Corelli (2015). “The Life Everlasting: A Reality of Romance”, p.341, The Floating Press

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• Love, if it be love indeed, asks no permission as to where it shall seek vantage ground or gain its victory - it is of all powers the most unfettered and the one which takes the widest course of largest liberty.

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  Victory, Liberty, Gains

  Marie Corelli (1971). “Open Confession to a Man from a Woman”, p.14, Health Research Books

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• I attribute my good fortune to the simple fact that I have always tried to write straight from my own heart to the hearts of others.

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  Writing, Heart, Simple

  Marie Corelli (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Marie Corelli (Illustrated)”, p.10877, Delphi Classics

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