Be sure that if you are unhappily celebrated for either beauty, wit, intellect, or all three together, half society wishes you dead already, and the other half tries to make you as wretched as possible while you are alive.

— Marie Corelli

Curious that it is impossible for a man to be original without attracting around him a set of unoriginal minds, as though he were a honey-pot and they the flies!

— Marie Corelli

Does one love a statue?" she demanded. "Shall I caress a picture? Shall I rain tears or kisses over the mere semblance of a life that does not live, shall I fondle hands that never return my clasp? Love! Love is in my heart -yes! Like a shut-up fire in a tomb, but you hold the key, and the flame dies for want of air.

— Marie Corelli

I can dip the pen in my own blood if I choose.

— Marie Corelli

If we choose to be no more than clods of clay then we shall be used as clods of clay for braver feet to tread on.

— Marie Corelli

I never married because I have three pets at home that answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog that growls every morning a parrot that swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

— Marie Corelli

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home that answer the same purpose as a husband. Furthermore, I have a dog that growls every morning a parrot that swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.

— Marie Corelli

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. Furthermore, 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

Let me be mad, then, by all means! Mad with the madness of Absinthe, the wildest, most luxurious madness in the world! Five la folio! Five l'amour! Five l'animalism! Five LE Viable!

— Marie Corelli

Stretch out your hand! Let no human soul wait for a benediction.

— Marie Corelli