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Marie Corelli QUOTES

Marie Corelli QUOTES

1 " Curious that it is impossible for a man to be original without attracting around him a set of unoriginal minds, as though he were a honey-pot and they the flies! "

― Marie Corelli

2 " Was it worth while, he thought, to be so wise, if wisdom made one at times so sad? Was it well to sacrifice Faith for Fact, when Faith was so warm and Fact so cold? Was it better to be a dreamer of things possible, or a worker-out of things positive? And how much was positive, after all, and how much possible? He balanced the question lightly with himself. It was like a discord in the music of his mind, and disturbed his peace. "

― Marie Corelli , The Soul of Lilith

3 " Be sure that if you are unhappily celebrated for either beauty, wit, intellect, or all three together, half society wishes you dead already, and the other half tries to make you as wretched as possible while you are alive. "

― Marie Corelli , The Sorrows of Satan; or, The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire

4 " There was something else,--something quite undefinable, that gave a singular glow and radiance to the whole countenance, and suggested the burning of a light through alabaster,--a creeping of some subtle fire through the veins which made the fair body seem the mere reflection of some greater fairness within. "

― Marie Corelli , The Soul of Lilith

5 " Let me be mad, then, by all means! mad with the madness of Absinthe, the wildest, most luxurious madness in the world! Vive la folie! Vive l'amour! Vive l'animalisme! Vive le Diable! "

― Marie Corelli , Wormwood: A Drama of Paris

6 " 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. "

― Marie Corelli

7 " I can dip the pen in my own blood if I choose. "

― Marie Corelli , Vendetta; or, the Story of One Forgotten

8 " Does one love a statue?" she demanded. "Shall I caress a picture? Shall I rain tears or kisses over the mere semblance of a life that does not live, shall I fondle hands that never return my clasp? Love! Love is in my heart -yes! like a shut-up fire in a tomb,but you hold the key, and the flame dies for want of air. "

― Marie Corelli , The Soul of Lilith

9 " I trusted in friendship rather than love "

― Marie Corelli , Vendetta; or, the Story of One Forgotten

10 " I am going to make you what you may perhaps consider rather a singular proposition. It is this, that if you don’t like me, say so at once, and we will part now, before we have time to know anything more of each other, and I will endeavour not to cross your path again unless you seek me out. But if on the contrary, you do like me,—if you find something in my humour or turn of mind congenial to your own disposition, give me your promise that you will be my friend and comrade for a while, say for a few months at any rate. I can take you into the best society, and introduce you to the prettiest women in Europe as well as the most brilliant men. I know them all, and I believe I can be useful to you. But if there is the smallest aversion to me lurking in the depths of your nature”—here he paused,—then resumed with extraordinary solemnity—“in God’s name give it full way and let me go,—because I swear to you in all sober earnest that I am not what I seem! "

― Marie Corelli , The Sorrows of Satan; or, The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire

11 " Beauty combined with wantonness frequently ends in the drawn twitch, fixed eye and helpless limbs of life-in-death. It is Nature’s revenge on the outraged body,—and do you know, Eternity’s revenge on the impure Soul is extremely similar? "

― Marie Corelli , The Sorrows of Satan; or, The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire

12 " If men were true to their immortal instincts and to the God that made them,—if they were generous, honest, fearless, faithful, reverent, unselfish, ... if women were pure, brave, tender and loving,—can you not imagine that in the strong force and fairness of such a world, ‘Lucifer, son of the Morning’ would be moved to love instead of hate?—that the closed doors of Paradise would be unbarred—and that he, lifted towards his Creator on the prayers of pure lives, would wear again his Angel’s crown? Can you not realize this, even by way of a legendary story? "

― Marie Corelli , The Sorrows of Satan; or, The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire

13 " Had any one dared to say this truth to me then, I should have bade him go and preach nonsense to children,—but now,—when I recall those white leaves of days that were unrolled before me fresh and blank with every sunrise, and with which I did nothing save scrawl my own Ego in a foul smudge across each one, I tremble, and inwardly pray that I may never be forced to send back my self-written record! "

― Marie Corelli , The Sorrows of Satan; or, The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire

14 " Dowered with great historic names which they almost despise, they do their best to drag the memory of their ancient lineage into dishonour by vulgar passions, low tastes, and a scorn as well as lack of true intelligence. Let us not talk of them. The English aristocracy was once a magnificent tree, but its broad boughs are fallen,--lopped off and turned into saleable timber,--and there is but a decaying stump of it left. "

― Marie Corelli , The Soul of Lilith

15 " No one is contented in this world, I believe. There is always something left to desire, and the last thing longed for always seems the most necessary to happiness. "

― Marie Corelli , A Romance of Two Worlds

16 " So you are tired of your life, young man! All the more reason have you to live. Anyone can die. A murderer has moral force enough to jeer at his hangman. It is very easy to draw the last breath. It can be accomplished successfully by a child or a warrior. One pang of far less anguish than the toothache, and all is over. There is nothing heroic about it, I assure you! It is as common as going to bed; it is almost prosy. Life is heroism, if you like; but death is a mere cessation of business. And to make a rapid and rude exit off the stage before the prompter gives the sign is always, to say the least of it, ungraceful. Act the part out, no matter how bad the play. What say you? "

― Marie Corelli , A Romance of Two Worlds

17 " But a man gifted with original thoughts and the power of expressing them, appears to be regarded by everyone in authority as much worse than the worst criminal, and all the ‘jacks-in-office’ unite to kick him to death if they can. "

― Marie Corelli , The Sorrows of Satan; or, The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire

18 " Few authors feel sufficiently themselves to make others ''feel "

― Marie Corelli

19 " takes its colours from the mind, my dear friend;”—he said—“If you discover evil suggestions in my music, the evil, I fear, must be in your own nature. "

― Marie Corelli , The Sorrows of Satan; or, The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire

20 " The finest actor is he who play the comedy of life perfectly, as i aspire to do. To walk well, talk well, weep well, laugh well and die well, it is all pure acting, because in every man there is the dumb dreadful immortal spirit who is real- who cannot act, who-is and who steadily maintains an infinite though speechless protest against the body's lies "

― Marie Corelli , The Sorrows of Satan; or, The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire