Marie Corelli - Fame Quotes

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Fame, or notoriety, whichever that special noise may be called when the world like a hound 'gives tongue' and announces that the quarry in some form of genius is at bay, is apt to increase its clamor in proportion to the aloofness of the pursued animal.

Marie Corelli

Absolutely disinterested love for a brilliantly endowed woman would be difficult to find in any male nature. Men love what is inferior to themselves, not superior. Thus women who are endowed with more then common intellectual ability have to choose from one of two alternatives. Love, or what is called love, and child bearing, — or fame, and lifelong loneliness.

Marie Corelli

I have longed and do long for fame, for wealth, for the world's applause, for all the things that you seem to think so petty and mean. How can I help it? Is not fame power? Is not money double power, strong to assist one's self and those one loves? Is not the world's favour a necessary means to gain these things?

Marie Corelli

Fame is capricious, and her trumpet is not loud enough to be heard all over the world at once.

Marie Corelli