“I only care for the subjective life; I am very German, you see: The woods interest me, and the world does not.” — Ouida Copy Share Image
A new life is innocent, like an empty page, ready for the hard lessons ahead. GENNITA LOW, Facing Fear To vice, innocence… — Ouida Copy Share Image
Christianity has been cruel in much to the human race. It has quenched much of the sweet joy and gladness of life;… — Ouida Copy Share Image
When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be… — Ouida Copy Share Image
It is a kind of blindness--poverty. We can only grope through life when we are poor, hitting and maiming ourselves against every… — Ouida Copy Share Image
Love, the one supreme, unceasing source of human felicity, the one sole joy which lifts the whole mortal existence into the empyrean,… — Ouida Copy Share Image
Coleridge cried; "O God, how glorious it is to live!" Renan asks, "O God, when will it be worth while to live?"… — Ouida Copy Share Image
“Her life had been altogether artificial; she had always been a great garden lily in a hot-house, she had never known what… — Ouida Copy Share Image
There is no more terrible woe upon earth than the woe of the stricken brain, which remembers the days of its strength,… — Ouida Copy Share Image
Christianity has ever been the enemy of human love; it has forever cursed and expelled and crucified the one passion which sweetens… — Ouida Copy Share Image
Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering; and therefore its pursuit by women… — Ouida Copy Share
When you talk yourself, you think how witty, how original, how acute you are; but when another does so, you are very apt to… — Ouida Copy Share
There is nothing that you may not get people to believe in if you will only tell it them loud enough and often enough,… — Ouida Copy Share
Christianity has ever been the enemy of human love; it has forever cursed and expelled and crucified the one passion which sweetens and smiles… — Ouida Copy Share
Genius scorns the power of gold: it is wrong. Gold is the war-scythe on its chariot, which mows down the millions of its foes,… — Ouida Copy Share
The philosopher stands at his desk in the lecture hall, and demonstrates away the soul of man, and with exact thought measures out his… — Ouida Copy Share
It is a kind of blindness--poverty. We can only grope through life when we are poor, hitting and maiming ourselves against every angle. — Ouida Copy Share
A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall. — Ouida Copy Share
![“Love, the one supreme, unceasing source of human felicity, the one sole joy which lifts the whole mortal existence into the empyrean, was by it [Christianity] degraded into the mere mechanical action of reproduction.” quote by Ouida](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/fc0/ouida-3651_action_love-the-one-supreme-unceasing-source-of_3196699.png)
