Marie Corelli - Woman Quotes

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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 only one thing that can ease the burden of life for a woman, and that is love.

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
A pretty woman is always an object of suspicion to the plain majority — and when she adds elegant attire to the attractions of form and feature, she is still more quickly and utterly condemned.

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

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

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

Marie Corelli