Marie Corelli Quotes

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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.

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

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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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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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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.

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A fine morning's killing, ay! All their necks wrung - all dead birds! Once they could fly - fly and swim! Fly and swim! All dead now - and sold cheap in the open market!

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

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

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It is generally through a woman that a man makes his mark, though he will never own it!

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Let me be mad, then, by all means! mad with the madness of Absinthe, the wildest, most luxurious madness in the world! Vive la folie! Vive l'amour! Vive l'animalisme! Vive le Diable!

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As the terror of imagined sufferings are always worse than actual pain, so dreams are frequently more vivid than the reality of life, — that is, if we are sure that life is indeed reality, and not a itself a dream within a dream.

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No man was ever persistently heroic, in small matters as well as great, and famous deeds are ever done on impulse.

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

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We select friends that are useful to us personally — we care little for their intrinsic merit, and we only tolerate them as long as they happen to suit our taste.

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Learn, learn all you can my brothers — take the only good thing modern government gives you — Education. The education of the masses means the downfall of false creeds, — the ruin of false priests! For it is only through the ignorance of the many that tyrannical dominion is give into hands of the few!

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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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Education! Is it education to teach the young that their chances of happiness depend on being richer than their neighbors? Yet that is what it all tends to. Get on! — be successful!

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Life itself is a continual battle between good and evil, and if it were not so we should have no object in living. The whole business is evidently intended to be a close conflict to the end.

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If you find on close self-examination, that you love yourself, your own importance, your position, your money, your household goods and clothes, your place in what you call 'society', more tan the steady working for and following of Christ, — YOU ARE NOT A CHRISTIAN. That being the case, be brave about it! Say what you are, and do not pretend to be what you are not!

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

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Beauty, though so perishable, is a snare to us all — it maddens our blood in spite of ourselves.

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Man is not by any means supreme. He imagines he is, but that is only one of his many delusions.

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Millionaires are generally such appalling creatures. Fortune, while giving them money, frequently deprives them of both brains and personal attractiveness.

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Is love alone worth living for — worth dying for? Is it the only satisfying good we can grasp at among the shifting shadows of our brief existence? In all it's various phases and different workings, is it, after all, the brightest radiance known in the struggling darkness of our lives?

Marie Corelli