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
teaching church lord
The Church is a system, - but whether it is as much founded on the teaching of our Lord, who was divine, as on the teaching of St. Paul, who was not divine, is a question to me of much perplexity.
agree british-novelist entirely found line mrs obscurity
I entirely agree with you about the obscurity of Mrs Browning's line about the stars. It is far-fetched. She wanted to express something which she found beyond expression.
depressing self world
There is nothing so depressing as a constant contemplation of one's self, and the greatest moral cowardice in the world's opinion comes from consulting one's own personal convenience.
opinion opposition
An opinion which excites no opposition at all is not worth having!
winning difficult
It is not so difficult to win love as to keep it!
spiritual intuition logic
Nothing is so deceptive as human reasoning, - nothing so slippery and reversible as what we have decided to call 'logic.' The truest compass of life is spiritual instinct.
spiritual sight imagination
Imagination is the supreme endowment of the poet and romanticist. It is a kind of second sight, which conveys the owner of it to places he has never seen, and surrounds him with strange circumstances of which he is merely the spiritual eyewitness.
hypocrisy criminals add
A criminal is twice a criminal when he adds hypocrisy to his crime.
reading matter term
For though there never was so much reading matter put before the public, there was never less actual 'reading' in the truest and highest sense of the term than there is at present.
church god-love one-love
When one loves God better than the Church is one called a heretic?
ideas world may
... 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.
summer sunshine two
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.
writing heart simple
I attribute my good fortune to the simple fact that I have always tried to write straight from my own heart to the hearts of others.
pain heart accomplishment
And out of heart's pain comes heart's peace; and out of desire, accomplishment.