Marie Corelli Quotes

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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 the afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.

Marie Corelli
Reasonable care of one's self is unselfishness, but anything in excess of reasonable is pure vice.

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The Press nowadays is not a literary press; classic diction and brilliancy of style do not distinguish it by any means.

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One of the advantages or disadvantages of the way in which we live in these modern days is that we are ceasing to feel. That is to say we do not permit ourselves to be affected by either death or misfortune, provided these natural calamities leave our own persons unscathed.

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Humility is the strongest weapon in all woman's armoury.

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It seems a silly kind o' business to bring us into the world at all for no special reason 'cept to take us out of it again just as folks 'ave learned to know us a bit and find us useful.

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It is not of ourselves we should think, for ourselves are always too much with us; — it is others upon whom our conduct and example may have a lasting good or evil influence.

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Hatred is such a strong passion, — to hate well one must first have loved.

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What is heaven? A state of perfect happiness. What is happiness? The immortal union of two souls in one, creatures of God's eternal light, partaking of each other's thoughts, bestowing upon each other the renewal of joy, and creating loveliness in form and action by their mutual sympathy and tenderness.

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To the young, injustice seems strange — to the old it has become customary and natural.

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Years... should be nothing to you. Who asked you to count them or to 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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A moneyless man if he wins a woman's love knows that such love is genuine and untainted by self-interest; but a rich man can never be truly certain of love at all.

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A man, if he be strong and healthy, is always more or less ashamed when Love, with a single effort, proves him to be weaker than a blade of grass swaying in the wind. What! all his dignity, all his resoluteness, all his authority, swept down by the light touch of a willow wand?

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

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Nothing upon earth is so singular as kindness, — nothing so rare as sympathy, — nothing so absolutely unique, wonderful and purely divine, as ungrudging, unboastful, devoted, changeless love that seeks nothing for itself, but freely gives everything.

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The world is not always kind to a clever woman even when she is visibly known to be earning her own living. There are always spiteful tongues wagging in the secret corners and byways, ready to assert that her work is not her own and and that some man is in the background, helping to keep her!

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I am not unpleased with the bitter-sweet taste of this new sensation. I am conscious of joy when you are near me, and of desolation when I see you not at all — both joy and desolation are equally subtle in sweetness.

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It is a mistake all men make with all women, — to judge them always as being of the same base material as themselves.

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No one in the world ever tried to be good and great at the same time without suffering miscomprehension and bitterness.

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Life is a talisman, dropped freely into they bosom, but the fitting use of the magic gift must be discovered by thyself alone.

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Life is like being out on the sea yonder, — a body must take the rough with the smooth and make the best of it.

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Stretch out your hand! — let no human soul wait for a benediction.

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Imagination is the supreme endowment of the poet and romanticist. It is a kind of second sight, which conveys the owner of it to places he has never seen, and surrounds him with strange circumstances of which he is merely the spiritual eyewitness.

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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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Hate is a grand, a strong quality! It makes nations, it builds up creeds! If men loved one another what should they need of a Church?

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Love, no matter how abused and maltreated, is a very patient god, and even while suffering from undeserved wounds, still works on, doing magical things.

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You can always pick out a very dull respectable woman by the hideousness of her clothes.

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As a rule men do not understand love. They understand desire, amounting sometimes to merciless covetousness for what they cannot get, — this is a leading characteristic of the masculine nature.

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One must have enemies in this world, — that is, if one makes any sort of position, — people without enemies are generally nonentities.

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I am simple worker, — earning every penny I need, — a worker and weaver of dreams. One of the dreams was love — and though rudely awakened, I still have power to dream again.

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