Ouida Quotes

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• Petty laws breed great crimes.

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  Law, Liberty, Libertarian

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.260, Ouida

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• Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

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  Friendship, Goodbye, Farewell

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• I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.

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  Father, Wish, Coward

  Ouida (1890*). “Wanda. Ariadne. The general's match-making”

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• A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

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  Running, Hands, Oil

  Ouida (2005). “Moths”, p.444, Broadview Press

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• for what is the gift of the poet and the artist except to see the sights which others cannot see and to hear the sounds that others cannot hear?

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  Art, Sight, Poetry

  Ouida (2016). “Bimbi: Stories for Children”, p.55, Ouida

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• There is a chord in every heart that has a sigh in it if touched aright.

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  Heart, Sadness, Chords

  Ouida (1900). “Signa: A Story”

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• In its permission to man to render subject to him all other living creatures of the earth, it continued the cruelty of the barbarian and the pagan, and endowed these with what appeared a divine authority.

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  Men, Religion, Earth

  Ouida (1896). “Views and Opinions”

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• Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

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  Selfish, People, Wish

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.408, Ouida

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• Honor is an old-world thing; but it smells sweet to those in whose hand it is strong.

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  Sweet, Strong, Hands

  Ouida (1890*). “Moths. The marquis's tactics. Meleagris Gallopavo. Guilderoy”

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• A pipe is a pocket philosopher,--a truer one than Socrates, for it never asks questions. Socrates must have been very tiresome, when one thinks of it.

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  Philosophy, Thinking, Pockets

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.6, Ouida

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• Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.

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  Hope, Heart, Men

  Ouida (1889). “A village commune. Idalia. Silver chimes and golden fetters. "Deadly dash"”

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• Excess always carries it's own retributions.

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  Excess, Retribution, Carrie

  Ouida (1889). “Works: Pascarel”

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• There is no knife that cuts so sharply and with such poisoned blade as treachery.

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  Cutting, Knives, Blades

  Ouida (1890*). “Puck. In Maremma”

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• Flowers belong to Fairyland: the flowers and the birds and the butterflies are all that the world has kept of its golden age--the only perfectly beautiful things on earth--joyous, innocent, half divine--useless, say they who are wiser than God.

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  Beautiful, Flower, Butterfly

  Ouida (2016). “Bébée, or Two Little Wooden Shoes”, p.48, Ouida

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• Hypocrites weep, and you cannot tell their tears from those of saints; but no bad man ever laughed sweetly yet.

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  Laughter, Hypocrite, Men

  Ouida (2005). “Moths”, p.257, Broadview Press

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• 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 lips to kiss you.

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  Mother, Hard Work, Kissing

  Ouida (2016). “Signa”, p.14, Ouida

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• Charity in various guises is an intruder the poor see often; but courtesy and delicacy are visitants with which they are seldom honored.

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  Charity, Delicacy, Courtesy

  Ouida (1890*). “Moths. The marquis's tactics. Meleagris Gallopavo. Guilderoy”

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• 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.

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  Joy, Religion, Action

  Ouida (1896). “Views and Opinions”

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• Power is sweet, and when you are a little clerk you love its sweetness quite as much as if you were an emperor, and maybe you love it a good deal more.

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  Sweet, Clerks, Littles

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.95, Ouida

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• Opposition to a man in love is like oil to fire.

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  Love, Men, Fire

  Ouida (1870). “Held in Bondage: Or, Granville de Vigne a Tale of the Day”, p.69

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• There is no applause that so flatters a man as that which he wrings from unwilling throats.

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  Men, Applause, Throat

  Ouida (1896). “Pipistrello: And Other Stories”

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• Coleridge cried; "O God, how glorious it is to live!" Renan asks, "O God, when will it be worth while to live?" In Nature we echo the poet; in the world we echo the thinker.

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  Life, Echoes, World

  Ouida (1889). “Chandos. Randolph Gordon. Slander and sillery. Blue and yellow. Belles and blackcock. A line in the "Daily"”

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• Fame has only the span of the day, they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth something.

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  Heart, People, Fame

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• Histories in blazonry and poems in stone.

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  Stones, Architecture

  Ouida (1872). “A Leaf in the Storm: And Other Stories”, p.34

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• Love is cruel as the grave.

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  Love Is, Graves

  Ouida (2016). “Signa”, p.529, Ouida

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