Ouida Quotes
- A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
- Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering; and therefore its pursuit by women is…
- The song that we hear with our ears is only the song that is sung in our hearts.
- Petty laws breed great crimes.
- It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's…
- Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.
- The world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace.
- To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
- Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
- An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.
- Friendship is usually treated...as a tough...thing which will survive all manner of bad treatment. But this is an exceedingly great and foolish error; it may…
- Great men have always had dogs.
- Friendship needs to be rooted in respect, but love can live upon itself alone
- Most crimes are sanctioned in some form or other when they take grand names.
- Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan.
- A great love is an absolute isolation and an absolute absorption.
- Great men always have dogs.
- Christianity is a formula: it is nothing more.
- If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual moment, such a method of locomotion as…
- The loss of our illusions is the only loss from which we never recover.