Marie Corelli Quotes
"I must not say what I truly think, or you will tell me I flatter you-but I can only speak what I feel-and very often I cannot even do that when the feeling is very deep."
- Marie Corelli
(Related: Deep, Feeling, Will)
"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."
- Marie Corelli
(Related: Expression, Obscurity, Stars)
"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."
- Marie Corelli
(Related: Fancy, Listening, London, Open, Summer, Thrushes)
"Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!"
- Marie Corelli
(Related: Thought, Praise)
"The Browning love story? It is an ideal, all too rare, and yet I hardly think it strange. It would have been far stranger had the fates allowed those two brilliant passionate souls to beat themselves out in silence."
- Marie Corelli
(Related: Love, Silence)
"I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night."
- Marie Corelli
(Related: Home, HusbPurpose, Night, Pets)