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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• age is nothing but death that is conscious.

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  Age, Conscious

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• Why is youth so short and age so long?

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  Long, Age, Youth

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• It is quite easy for stupid people to be happy; they believe in fables, and they trot on in a beaten track like a horse on a tramway.

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  Happiness, Horse, Stupid

  Ouida (1889). “Works: Pascarel”

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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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• Excess always carries it's own retributions.

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  Excess, Retribution, Carrie

  Ouida (1889). “Works: Pascarel”

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• Even of death Christianity has made a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan and the stoical repose of the Indian.

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  Christian, Gay, Religion

  "Views and Opinions".

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

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  Beauty, Self, Half

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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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• 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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• Christianity is a formula: it is nothing more.

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  Christianity, Formulas

  Ouida (1896). “Views and Opinions”

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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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• The radical defect in Christianity is that it tried to win the world by a bribe, and it has become a nullity.

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  Winning, Atheism, World

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