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
greatness envy mediocrity
Greatness is always envied - it is only mediocrity that can boast of a host of friends.
flower messages visible
Flowers are like visible messages from God.
feet clay used
If we choose to be no more than clods of clay, then we shall be used as clods of day for braver feet to tread on.
littles poet great-poet
Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else.
age old-age
nobody ever intends to be old.
selfish miserable greedy
Pleasure for others is the only pleasure possible to me. I assure you I'm quite selfish! - I'm greedy for the happiness of those I love - and if they can't or won't be happy I'm perfectly miserable.
time years rose
Years should be nothing to you. Who asked you to count them or consider them? In the world of wild Nature, time is measured by seasons only-the bird does not know how old it is-the rose-tree does not count its birthdays!
work
work is happiness. No one can take my work from me and therefore no one can take my happiness from me.
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.