Marie Corelli
Marie Corelli
Marie Corelliwas a British novelist. She enjoyed a period of great literary success from the publication of her first novel in 1886 until World War I. Corelli's novels sold more copies than the combined sales of popular contemporaries, including Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, and Rudyard Kipling, although critics often derided her work as "the favourite of the common multitude."...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth1 May 1855
men confusion would-be
How foolish it would be if women did not obey men. The world would be all confusion!
animal giving special
Fame, or notoriety, whichever that special noise may be called when the world like a hound 'gives tongue' and announces that the quarry in some form of genius is at bay, is apt to increase its clamor in proportion to the aloofness of the pursued animal ...
mirrors kind wealth
Wealth acts merely as a kind of mirror to show you human nature at its worst.
believe desire world
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.
victory liberty gains
love, if it be love indeed, asks no permission as to where it shall seek vantage ground or gain its victory - it is of all powers the most unfettered and the one which takes the widest course of largest liberty ...
poetry poetry-is
religion is poetry, - poetry is religion.
beautiful kids hard-work
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!
funny marriage wedding
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.
giving envy hatred
Nothing gives small minds a better handle for hatred than superiority ...
lovely delicacy thanks
Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!