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Marie Corelli Quotes

Total quotes: 56
“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
“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
“'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
“I don't understand people who are so much afraid of the Lord. They must have done something wrong. If you always do your best, and try to be good, you needn't fear anything. At least, that's my opinion.”
— Marie Corelli, Thelma
Tagged: religiosity, Spirituality, spiritual connection, Fear of God, Religion, Opinion
“I cannot say it properly! There is no language for my heart! If I could tell you all I feel, you would think it foolish, I am sure, because if is all so wild and strange.”
— Marie Corelli, Thelma
Tagged: Love, affection, Feelings, In love, Feeling of love, Feeling In Love
“But it is not anything to be beautiful — unless one is loved — and then it is different! I feel much more beautiful now, since you think me pleasant to look at! ”
— Marie Corelli, Thelma
Tagged: Love, affection, beauty, Appreciated, Appreciation, Worth, love and self-worth
“Lorimer entered the saloon. He glanced from Errington to Thelma, and from Thelma back again to Errington — and smiled. So have certain brave soldiers been known to smile in face of a death-shot.”
— Marie Corelli, Thelma
Tagged: Love, one-sided love, hidden feelings, hidden love
“Now, when for the third time his fairy castle of perfect peace and pleasure seemed shaken to its foundations, when he again realized the uncertainty of life or death, he felt bewildered and wretched.”
— Marie Corelli, Thelma
Tagged: Life, life's challenges, life's dilemmas, life's tragedy, life's uncertainty
“It's easy to say what should have been, harder to acknowledge the inexorable force of necessity.”
— Marie Corelli, The Secret Power
Tagged: Amor fati
“I have found that — no one in the world pities you! But perhaps you do not know the world — ah! it is very hard and cold; all the people hide their feelings and pretend to be what they are not. It is difficult to live so, and I am tired!”
— Marie Corelli, Thelma
Tagged: Life, Living, surviving life, life's tragedy, life's truth, harsh world, Society, judgmental society, societal standards
“Come; if I give you my name will you still deny me yours?”
— Marie Corelli, Thelma
Tagged: Flirting, Flirting Lines, Pick Up Lines, Love, first meeting, Love at First Sight
“The tenderest relations are often the most delicate and subtle, and 'trifles light as air' may scatter and utterly destroy the sensitive gossamer threads extending between one heart and another, as easily as a child's passing foot destroys the spider's web woven on the dewy grass in the early mornings of spring.”
— Marie Corelli, Thelma
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Love & Relationships, Intimate relationship, fragility, fragility of relationships
“I am but a sorry consoler, holding, as I do, that death is the chief blessing , and in no way to be regretted at any time. Moreover, when the body grows too weak to support the soul, 't is as well to escape from it with what speed we may.”
— Marie Corelli, Thelma
Tagged: Death, life & death, accepting death, Dying
“'You do nothing for your living?'
'Nothing, indeed!' and he shrugged his shoulders with a mingled air of weariness and self-pity, 'Except one thing — I live!
'Is that hard work?' she inquired wonderingly.
'Very!'”
— Marie Corelli, Thelma
Tagged: Life, Living, Living Fully, Living Life To The Fullest, Inspirational, Life Is Worth Living
“Lorimer had no pretence to musical talent; when asked, he confessed he could 'strum a little', and he hardly seemed to see the evident wonder and admiration he awakened in the minds of the many, to whom such 'strumming' as his was infinitely more delightful than more practised, finished playing.”
— Marie Corelli, Thelma
Tagged: musical talent, Music, playing piano, Talent
“Love you? Ah, yes! More than my life!”
— Marie Corelli, Thelma
Tagged: Love, declaring love, I Love You, affection, Infatuation, In love
“And I shall grow young again in the storm and drift of the foam and the dark wild waves! Yes — a wandering life suits me — and I am not sorry to have a taste of it once more. There's nothing like it — nothing like a broad ocean and sweeping wind!”
— Marie Corelli, Thelma
Tagged: Sea, Adventure, travel, Exploring, Explore, Life, life enjoyment, Fulfillment, Success, Dreams, dreams in life
“He understood at last what poets meant by their melodious musings, woven into golden threads of song — he seemed to have grasped some hitherto unguessed secret of his being — a secret that filled him with as much strange pain as pleasure.”
— Marie Corelli, Thelma
Tagged: Love, Falling In Love, In love
“Marriage had for once fulfilled its real and sacred meaning — it had set Love free from restraint, and had opened all gateways of the only earthly paradise human hearts shall ever know — the paradise of perfect union and absolute sympathy with the one thing beloved on this side eternity.”
— Marie Corelli, Thelma
Tagged: Marriage, Married Life, Love, Making Love, union of partners, Sex
“Many people desired to be something they are not . . . She was, without knowing it, such an adept in society humbug, that she even humbugged herself. She betrayed herself as she betrayed others, and told little soothing lies to her own conscience as she told them to her friends.”
— Marie Corelli, Thelma
Tagged: Society, Humbug, humbug of society, Modern Society, society today, people of today
“Excess of happiness must always end in sorrow.”
— Marie Corelli, Thelma
Tagged: Happiness, Sorrow, excess happiness
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