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
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!
compassion way modern
One of the advantages or disadvantages of the way in which we live in these modern days is that we are ceasing to feel. That is to say we do not permit ourselves to be affected by either death or misfortune, provided these natural calamities leave our own persons unscathed.
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.
greatness envy mediocrity
Greatness is always envied - it is only mediocrity that can boast of a host of friends.
laughter thinking laughing
What a fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy.