Marie Corelli - Nature Quotes

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War — especially nowadays is a mere slaughterhouse — and soldiers are the poor sheep led to the shambles. The real nature of the thing is covered up under the flying flags and the shout of patriotism, but, as a matter of stern fact, it is a horrible piece of cowardice for one nation to try murdering another just to see which one gets it's way first.

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.

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She managed to grow stouter every day with a persistence and fortitude which denoted the reserved forces of her nature.

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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!

Marie Corelli
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.

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

Marie Corelli