Marie Corelli

“Time is a dictator, as we all know, and is always cutting things short.”

“For the brain, like the stomach, is deadened by excess.”

“The sea is a lonely thing, a strange thing, a thing of dreams and fantasies.”

“We are all of us, more or less, the slaves of circumstance.”

“It is the easiest thing in the world to be a popular writer. Your readers are all people who have never been taught to read.”

“The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like a potato—the only good belonging to him is underground.”

“I never married because I was too difficult to live with. I know that I am a difficult person to live with. And I am proud of it.”

“To be truly happy is a question of how we begin, and not of how we end, of what we want and not of what we have.”

“Imagination is the supreme master of art as of life.”

“The passions of mankind are partly protective, and partly destructive.”

“There is nothing in the world so easy to explain as failure—it is, after all, the normal condition of life.”

“Ah, the world is a great bog, besides being a tragic and foolish place.”

“It is a better thing to weigh and measure priorities and pursue them with zeal than to rush haphazardly into tasks that have no lasting value.”

“Life is a boomerang. What you give, you get.”

“A lie is a mimicry of truth... and envy is a clumsy mimicry of hate.”