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
The song that we hear with our ears is only the song that is sung in our hearts. — Ouida Copy Share Image
Is there a more pitiable spectacle than that of a wife contending with others for that charm in her husband's sight which… — Ouida Copy Share Image
What we love once, we love forever. Shall there be joy in heaven over those who repent, yet no forgiveness for them… — Ouida Copy Share Image
Friendship is such an elastic word. There never was an age when it stood for so many things in private, and was… — Ouida Copy Share Image
“In the violent scorn of her revolted pride, of her indignant honor, had she forgotten a lowlier yet harder duty left undone?… — Ouida Copy Share Image
Women hope that the dead love may revive; but men know that of all dead things none are so past recall as… — Ouida Copy Share Image
Friendship needs to be rooted in respect, but love can live upon itself alone — 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
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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is half married. — Ouida Copy Share Image
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 Image
