Ouida Quotes About Genius

Quotes about: Genius

• Genius cannot escape the taint of its time more than a child the influence of its begetting.

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  Children, Genius, Influence

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.15, Ouida

• The scorn of genius is the most arrogant and the most boundless of all scorn.

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  Genius, Arrogant, Scorn

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.317, Ouida

• Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.

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  Music, Sublime, Genius

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.319, 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, and gives free passage to the sun-coursers with which it leaves those heavenly fields of light for the gross battlefields of earth.

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  Money, War, Light

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.52, Ouida

• A man may be a great statesman, and yet dislike his wife, and like somebody else's. A man may be a great hero, and yet he may have an unseemly passion, or an unpaid tailor. But the British public does not understand this. ... It thinks, unhappily or happily as you may choose to consider, that genius should keep the whole ten commandments. Now, genius is conspicuous for breaking them.

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  Hero, Passion, Men

• Talent wears well, genius wears itself out; talent drives a snug brougham in fact; genius, a sun-chariot in fancy.

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  Science, Genius, Fancy

  Ouida (1871). “Chandos: A Novel : in Two Volumes”, p.91

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