List of Marie Corelli Quotes

... Though A Dealer In Meat, Groceries, And Other Food Stuffs May Obtain Compensation If His Wares Are Wilfully Misrepresented To The Buying Public, The Purveyor Of Thoughts Or Ideas Has No Remedy When Such Thoughts Or Ideas Are Deliberately And Purposefully Falsified To The World Through The Press.

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.

It Seems A Silly Kind O' Business To Bring Us Into The World At All For No Special Reason 'cept To Take Us Out Of It Again Just As Folks 'ave Learned To Know Us A Bit And Find Us Useful.

The Press Nowadays Is Not A Literary Press; Classic Diction And Brilliancy Of Style Do Not Distinguish It By Any Means.

Religion Is Poetry, - Poetry Is Religion.

A Criminal Is Twice A Criminal When He Adds Hypocrisy To His Crime.

Patriotism Is Understood To Be That Virtue Which Consists In Serving One's Country; But In What Way Is This 'patria' Or Country Served By Slaying Its Able Bodied Men In Thousands?

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.

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.

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!

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.

And Out Of Heart's Pain Comes Heart's Peace; And Out Of Desire, Accomplishment.