There is no wealth but love. Marie Corelli More Quotes by Marie Corelli More Quotes From Marie Corelli Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks! Marie Corelli delicacy thanks lovely 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 wedding marriage funny Love clamors far more incessantly and passionately at a closed gate than an open one! Marie Corelli clamor resistance love Wealth acts merely as a kind of mirror to show you human nature at its worst. Marie Corelli wealth mirrors kind Flowers are like visible messages from God. Marie Corelli visible flower messages You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work; and you have so much beautiful work to do. The world needs it, and you must give it! Marie Corelli hard-work beautiful kids Nothing gives small minds a better handle for hatred than superiority. Marie Corelli envy hatred giving Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else. Marie Corelli great-poet poet littles 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. Marie Corelli greedy miserable selfish What a fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy. Marie Corelli laughter laughing thinking 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. Marie Corelli lasts desire believe 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. Marie Corelli victory gains liberty 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. Marie Corelli special animal giving 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! Marie Corelli rose time years A fine morning's killing, ay! All their necks wrung - all dead birds! Once they could fly - fly and swim! Fly and swim! All dead now - and sold cheap in the open market! Marie Corelli hunting morning bird in my opinion, the Divine is revealed to all men once at least in their lives. Marie Corelli spirituality opinion men 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. Marie Corelli church teaching lord Let me be mad, then, by all means! mad with the madness of Absinthe, the wildest, most luxurious madness in the world! Vive la folie! Vive l'amour! Vive l'animalisme! Vive le Diable! Marie Corelli mad mean 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. Marie Corelli depressing self world Education! Is it education to teach the young that their chances of happiness depend on being richer than their neighbors? Yet that is what it all tends to. Get on! - be successful! Marie Corelli chance successful education
