Marie Corelli quotes

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)
Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks! View quote
Marie Corelli
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! View quote
Marie Corelli
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. View quote
Marie Corelli
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. View quote
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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! View quote
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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. View quote
Marie Corelli
Wealth acts merely as a kind of mirror to show you human nature at its worst. View quote
Marie Corelli
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. View quote
Marie Corelli