Greatness is always envied - it is only mediocrity that can boast of a host of friends.
Marie Corelliit seems a silly kind o' business to bring us into the world at all for no special reason 'cept to take us out of it again just as folks 'ave learned to know us a bit and find us useful.
Marie Corelliwork is happiness. No one can take my work from me and therefore no one can take my happiness from me.
Marie Corellithe world is not always kind to a clever woman even when she is visibly known to be earning her own living. There are always spiteful tongues wagging in the secret corners and byways, ready to assert that her work is not her own and and that some man is in the background, helping to keep her!
Marie Corelli