автордың кітабынан сөз тіркестері  Скорбь сатаны / The sorrows of Satan. Уровень 4

Мария Корелли

You may lead a horse to the water but you cannot make it drink.

Not one author in many centuries writes from his own heart or as he truly feels. When he does, he becomes immortal.

man gives no clue to his intent – more malignant than the lion, more treacherous than the snake, more greedy than the wolf, he takes his fellow-man’s hand in pretended friendship, and with a smiling face he hides a false and selfish heart!

midst of life we are in death

the devil is not so black as he is painted

needs must when the devil drives

Honest folk should be sacrificed in order to provide for the sustenance of knaves!

Genius thrives in a garret and dies in a palace.

No one is old, my dear sir, nowadays

to make both ends meet