Affection Quote by Ouida

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

Indifference is the invincible grant of the world.

— Ouida

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

Indifference is the invisible giant of the world.

— Ouida

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

To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

— Ouida

An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

— Ouida

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

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

There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is half married.

— Ouida

No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world.

— Ouida

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