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 have met a thousand scamps; but I never met one who considered himself so. Self-knowledge isn't so common.

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  Self, Common, Mets

  Ouida (1870). “Puck: His Vicissitudes, Adventures, Observations, Conclusions, Friendships, and Philosophies”, p.131

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• Indifference is the invisible giant of the world.

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  Giants, World, Indifference

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• Christianity has been cruel in much to the human race. It has quenched much of the sweet joy and gladness of life; it has caused the natural passions and affections of it to be held as sins.

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  Sweet, Passion, Race

  Ouida (1896). “Views and Opinions”

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• Women hope that the dead love may revive; but men know that of all dead things none are so past recall as a dead passion.

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  Love, Passion, Past

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.26, Ouida

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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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• The Christian religion, outwardly and even in intention humble, does, without meaning it, teach man to regard himself as the most important of all created things. Man surveys the starry heavens and hears with his ears of the plurality of worlds; yet his religion bids him believe that his alone out of these innumerable spheres is the object of his master's love and sacrifice.

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  Christian, Believe, Humble

  Ouida (1896). “Views and Opinions”

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• Death! It is rest to the aged, it is oblivion to the atheist, it is immortality to the poet!

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  Death, Atheist, Oblivion

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.92, Ouida

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• We only see clearly when we have reached the depths of woe.

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  Depth, Affliction, Woe

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• The world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace.

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  Ignorance, World

  Ouida (1884). “Wanda”

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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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• 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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• Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.

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  Drawing, Rooms, Honest

  Ouida (1875). “Chandos: A Novel”, p.106

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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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• Love is cruel as the grave.

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  Love Is, Graves

  Ouida (2016). “Signa”, p.529, Ouida

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• age is nothing but death that is conscious.

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  Age, Conscious

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• Christianity ... has produced the iniquities of the Inquisition, the egotism and celibacy of the monasteries, the fury of religious wars, the ferocity of the Hussite, of the Catholic, of the Puritan, of the Spaniard, of the Irish Orangeman and of the Irish Papist; it has divided families, alienated friends, lighted the torch of civil war, and borne the virgin and the greybeard to the burning pile, broken delicate limbs upon the wheel and wrung the souls and bodies of innocent creatures on the rack; all this it has done, and done in the name of God.

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  Religious, War, Soul And Body

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• You know the Ark of Israel and the calf of Belial were both made of gold. Religion has never yet changed the metal of her one adoration.

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  Israel, Gold, Ark

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• The bread of bitterness is the food on which men grow to their fullest stature; the waters of bitterness are the debatable ford through which they reach the shores of wisdom; the ashes boldly grasped and eaten without faltering are the price that must be paid for the golden fruit of knowledge.

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  Men, Water, Golden

  Ouida (1875). “Chandos: A Novel”, p.466

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

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  Vices, Innocence, Kind

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.149, Ouida

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

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  Husband, Comfort, Easy

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.388, Ouida

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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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