Marie Corelli - Man Quotes

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If a man rushes wilfully into danger, danger will not move itself out of the way for him.

Marie Corelli
A dog may be honest without offence to the world in general, but a man must never be honest, unless he wishes to be considered a fool or a madman, or both.

Marie Corelli
Art is sexless; — good work is eternal, no matter whether it is man or woman who has accomplished it.... Ah, but the world will never own woman's work to be great even if it be so, because men give the verdict, and man's praise is for himself and his own achievements always.

Marie Corelli
Love is electricity. Two telegrams are enough to settle the business, — one from the eyes of the man, the other from the eyes of the woman.

Marie Corelli
There is no more absolute truth than this — that each man and each woman must make his or her own destiny both here and hereafter.

Marie Corelli
The beginning of my history is — love. It is the beginning of every man and every woman's history, if they are only frank enough to admit it.

Marie Corelli
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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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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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.

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

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

Marie Corelli