Author of quotes: Maria Corelli. Page 8

Do not trust virtue, male or female, until you've tried to buy it for a tidy sum! Money, my precious Jeffrey, did everything for you, remember that! You did nothing for yourself.

The idleness, wickedness, extravagance and selfishness of women make men rude and selfish.

Many women raised a cry, as chickens in the aviary, about their "rights". Their greatest right, their highest privilege is to guide and guard the souls of men. This they reject as something unworthy. Aristocrat removed from the care of the children, charging their servants and mercenaries, and then are surprised and injured if those children come fools or villains.

When we are upset, no one else dares to be funny, and we from nature itself expected sad if our beloved Ego saddened by anything- this is a funny conceit.

I would never in the world wanted to possess riches. To be surrounded by flatterers and deceivers, and never be able to discern false from true friends, to be loved for what I have and not for what I am.

The beauty associated with debauchery, often ends by convulsions, tetanus, and bodily weakness, it's nature's revenge for the desecrated body, and, you know, the revenge of eternity for the wicked soul are exactly the same.

If I were Satan, I would probably grieve! Because every lost soul would remind me of my own fall, my own despair, and would be a new obstacle between me and the sky! Remember the devil was once an angel!

And what I especially despise them (women), this is because they are given enormous power to do good, and they wasted nothing that power and not using it. Their premeditation and choice of the repulsive, vulgar and vulgar aspects of life that annoy me. They are much less sensitive than men, and infinitely more heartless. They are the mother of the human race, and mistakes race primarily belong to them. This is another reason for my hatred.

Satan, you're talking about with compassion, never disturb the peace of the pure contentment of the soul. Equal agree: a fallen angel seeks the equally fallen, and the devil, if he has, is a friend of those who delight in his teaching and society. Legend says that he was afraid of the crucifixion, but I would say that if he is afraid something is "sweet contentment", which celebrates Shakespeare and which serves as a reliable protection against evil.