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Marie Corelli Quotes

Total quotes: 91
“She is innocent too — like a baby — and she worships her husband. That is an error! To worship a man is a great mistake — she will find it so. Men are not to be too much loved — no, no!”
— Marie Corelli, Thelma
Tagged: feminism, Feminist, worshiping a man, men are not to be trusted, Love Yourself First, Relationships, Men, Married Life, Marriage, Husband and Wife
“Without her, the world was empty — its ambition, its pride, its good, its evil, seemed but the dreariest and most foolish trifles!”
— Marie Corelli, Thelma
Tagged: Women, feminism, women make the world better
“The reputation of a woman is nothing nowadays. Fair game — go on!”
— Marie Corelli, Thelma
Tagged: Women, feminism, Gender Equality, Women Empowerment
“Then came a touch — soft and sweet as a rose-leaf pressed against his lips — and for one moment he remembered nothing — he was caught up like Homer's Paris in a cloud of gold, and knew not which was earth or heaven.”
— Marie Corelli, Thelma
Tagged: kiss, Love, affection, Emotion, In love
“Mon Dieu! If I had but the gift of writing, I would conquer the world!”
— Marie Corelli, Thelma
Tagged: Writing, Writing & Expression, writing truth, Words, Power of Words
“Modern society contains within itself the seed of its own destruction.”
— Marie Corelli, Thelma
Tagged: Society, Modern Society, society today, Destruction, societal standards
“There seems to be nothing that is true — all is false and unreal — I cannot understand!”
— Marie Corelli, Thelma
Tagged: Truth, Reality, false, life's truth, Truths, Genuineness
“What are you thinking about? Your eyes shine so brightly — do you know you have beautiful eyes?”
— Marie Corelli, Thelma
Tagged: Love, Attraction, In love, affection, Infatuation, sweet, Pick Up Lines
“Truth is truth, however much you may wish to blind your eyes to its manifestations.”
— Marie Corelli, Thelma
Tagged: Truth, Truth Prevails, truth hurts, True, Reality
“Matchless beauty! . . . Will you not pardon my crime, if crime it be — the crime of loving you? For I do love you! Heaven only knows how utterly and desperately.”
— Marie Corelli, Thelma
Tagged: Love, In love, deeply in love, Infatuation, Expressing Love, expressing feelings
“'Tis one of the many privileges of the old, to see the world about them always young and full of children.”
— Marie Corelli, Thelma
Tagged: Growing Old, being old, Getting Old, Age, Old People
“I attach no importance to the mere appurtenances of life — the baggage that accompanies one on that brief journey. Life itself is quite enough for me.”
— Marie Corelli, Thelma
Tagged: Life, Living, Living life, living life fully, Enjoying Life
“I believe in nothing, — I came from nothing — I am nothing. I shall be nothing. That being plain, I am all right.”
— Marie Corelli, Thelma
Tagged: Nothing, Life, Life's Worth, Self Worth, Self Value
“Still Love remained — a Love, chastened and sad, with drooping wings and somewhat doubting smile — yet it was Love . . .”
— Marie Corelli, Thelma
Tagged: Love, sad love, love is love, Feelings, your feelings matter
“I will not speak of the suddenness of your love for my child, because I know, from my own past experience, that love is a rapid impulse — a flame ignited in a moment.”
— Marie Corelli, Thelma
Tagged: Love, Definition Of Love, understanding of love
“''Child, he said tremulously, ' in the new joys that await thee, never forget how thy father loves thee!'”
— Marie Corelli, Thelma
Tagged: Love, parental love, Parting Ways, Parents, loving relationship, loving relationship with parents, father-and-daughter relationship
“Gone — with all his wild poet fancies and wandering dreams — gone, with his unspoken love and unguessed sorrows — gone where dark things shall be made light.”
— Marie Corelli, Thelma
Tagged: Death, Loss, Death & Loss, dead, passing
“As days passed, the more close and perfect grew the sympathies of husband and wife, they were like two notes of a perfect chord, sounding together in sweetest harmony.”
— Marie Corelli, Thelma
Tagged: Love, Marriage, newly weds, Married Life, Husband and Wife, In love
“For if a woman have an innocent, unsuspecting soul as delicate as the curled cup of a Nile lily, the more easily will it droop and wither in the heated grasp of a careless, cruel hand.”
— Marie Corelli, Thelma
Tagged: Women, Woman, female, Innocence, innocent, Purity, Girls, Ladies, Lady, society's standard, society's system
“But there must be a certain pleasure in it while you're alive to enjoy it.”
— Marie Corelli, Thelma
Tagged: Life, enjoy life, Living Fully, live to the fullest, Living, life's pleasures
“'You would not blame poor Svensen because he is alone, father?' she said. 'Is he not to be pitied? Surely it is a cruel fate to have none to love in all the wide world. Nothing can be more cruel!'”
— Marie Corelli, Thelma
Tagged: Lonely, Loneliness, Love, no one to love, loveless
“And shall I ruffle the sweet leaves; shall I crush the tender petals? Or shall I simply transform them, from pansies into roses, — from the dream of love, — into love itself?”
— Marie Corelli, Thelma
Tagged: Love, Falling In Love, Infatuation, affection, developing feelings, developing love
“'It is not my fault if the people are foolish,' she said coldly; 'I have never done harm to anyone that I know of.'”
— Marie Corelli, Thelma
Tagged: Self Care, self awareness, Self love, pleasing everyone, Inspirational
“Chess is for those who intend to form republics. All the worry and calculation — all the moves of pawns, bishops, knights, castles, and queen, all to shelter the throne which is not worth protecting!”
— Marie Corelli, Thelma
Tagged: Chess, Politics, Men, throne, smash the patriarchy, Society
“All of us have to get out of life somehow one day — that's certain — but few of us have the chance of making such a triumphant exit.”
— Marie Corelli, Thelma
Tagged: Life, Death, Life And Death, Death and Life
“Days of high ecstacy and painfully passionate joy! — when 'love, love!'  palpitated in the air, and struggled for utterance in the jubilant throats of birds, and whispered wild suggestions in the rustling of the leaves!”
— Marie Corelli, Thelma
Tagged: Love, deeply in love, In love, Loving Deeply
“The thing's perfectly fashionable, and there isn't a woman in society who wouldn't be perfectly charmed with it. But your ideas are better than Rosine's and all society's put together. Obey your own womanly instinct, Thelma!”
— Marie Corelli, Thelma
Tagged: Motivational, Be yourself, Just Be Yourself, Be Confident, Self-appreciation
“I wish to God I could keep you all to myself without anybody's interference!”
— Marie Corelli, Thelma
Tagged: Love, endearment, Loving Deeply, In love
“He loved her! The terrible, beautiful tempest of love had broken over his life at last; there was no escape from its thunderous passion and dazzling lightning glory.”
— Marie Corelli, Thelma
Tagged: Love, In love, admitting love, Falling In Love, Fell In Love, Fall in love, affection
“Is it not true that many people do hide their feelings, and pretend to be quite different to what they are?”
— Marie Corelli, Thelma
Tagged: Feelings, hiding feelings, Love, emotions, hiding emotions, People, Society
“I do not think wealth is needful to make one happy. But love — ah! I could not live without it . . .”
— Marie Corelli, Thelma
Tagged: Love, Wealth, love vs. wealth, In love, deeply in love
“Love that keeps all the choir of lives in chime — 
Love that is blood within the veins of time.”
— Marie Corelli, Thelma
Tagged: Love, love is love, Meaning Of Love
“And Love, no matter how abused and maltreated, is a very patient god, and even while suffering from undeserved wounds, still works on, doing magical things.”
— Marie Corelli, Thelma
Tagged: Love, love heals, Everlasting love, love is love, healing power of love, Power of Love
“Your eyes are looking at the sky, Thelma. Do you know what that is? Heaven looking into heaven! And do you know which of the two heavens I prefer?”
— Marie Corelli, Thelma
Tagged: Love, Pick Up Lines, Flirting, Flirting Lines, Expressing Love, expressing feelings, sweet
“Love! Love is strong as death — jealousy is cruel as the grave — the coals thereof are coals of fire, which have a most vehement flame!”
— Marie Corelli, Thelma
Tagged: Love, love is lethal, love is tricky, love is taking risk, love and jealousy, Jealousy
“But men are all alike — as long as they've got what they want, they never think of anybody else.”
— Marie Corelli, Thelma
Tagged: Men, men are selfish, Insight, Opinion
“Love, and love only, supported, controlled, and grandly completed the universe! He accepted this answer to all perplexities — his heart expanded with a sense of large content — his soul was satisfied.”
— Marie Corelli, Thelma
Tagged: Love, Feeling In Love, Feeling of love, emotions in love, In love, Fall in love
“Yes, you must all die; but death does not hurt; no! Life hurts, but not death! See! As I pluck you, you all grow wings and fly away — away to other meadows and bloom again.”
— Marie Corelli, Thelma
Tagged: Death, Life, Living, Dying, Metaphor
“If you do not love life itself, you love the beautiful things of life, do you not?”
— Marie Corelli, Thelma
Tagged: Life, Living life, Living Life To The Fullest, Living, life is still good
“Love is electricity. Two telegrams are enough to settle the business, — one from the eyes of the man, the other from those of the woman.”
— Marie Corelli, Thelma
Tagged: Love, Falling In Love, In love, Being In Love
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