Marie Corelli Quotes (10 Quotes)


    Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!

    I must not say what I truly think, or you will tell me I flatter you-but I can only speak what I feel-and very often I cannot even do that when the feeling is very deep.

    I entirely agree with you about the obscurity of Mrs Browning's line about the stars. It is far-fetched. She wanted to express something which she found beyond expression.

    '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'

    The Browning love story? It is an ideal, all too rare, and yet I hardly think it strange. It would have been far stranger had the fates allowed those two brilliant passionate souls to beat themselves out in silence.


    What a fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy.

    Fancy your having no sunshine in London yesterday! Here it was glorious, like full summer, and I sat up with the window wide open, listening to the discourse of two amorous thrushes.

    If we choose to be no more than clods of clay, then we shall be used as clods of clay for braver feet to tread on.

    I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.

    You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work; and you have so much beautiful work to do. The world needs it, and you must give it!


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