Ouida Quotes - Page 4

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• A great love is an absolute isolation and an absolute absorption.

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  Love, Isolation, Absolutes

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.10, Ouida

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• 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

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• nothing is so pleasant ... as to display your worldly wisdom in epigram and dissertation, but it is a trifle tedious to hear another person display theirs.

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  Wit, Trifles, Bores

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

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• Friendship needs to be rooted in respect, but love can live upon itself alone

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  Friendship, Needs, Rooted

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.312, Ouida

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• Youth without faith is a day without sun.

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  Faith, Sun, Youth

  Ouida (1875). “Chandos: A Novel”, p.558

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• Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering; and therefore its pursuit by women is much more to be regretted than its pursuit by men, because women pursue much more violently and recklessly what they pursue at all.

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  Sports, Men, Feelings

  Ouida (1901). “Critical Studies”

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• The fire of true enthusiasm is like the fires of Baku, which no water can ever quench, and which burn steadily on from night to day, and year to year, because their well-spring is eternal.

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  Spring, Night, Years

  Ouida (1870). “Held in Bondage: Or, Granville de Vigne a Tale of the Day”, p.197

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• 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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• When you talk yourself, you think how witty, how original, how acute you are; but when another does so, you are very apt to think only - What a crib from Rochefoucauld!

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  Witty, Thinking, Doe

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

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• If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual moment, such a method of locomotion as cycling could never have found acceptance; no man or woman with the slightest aesthetic sense could assume the ludicrous position necessary for it.

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  Acceptance, Men, Cycling

  Ouida (1901). “Critical Studies”

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• For Pastrasche was their alpha and omega; their treasury and granary; their store of gold and wand of wealth; their bread-winner and minister; their only friend and comforter. ... Pastrasche was their dog.

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  Dog, Gold, Bread

  Ouida (2017). “A Dog of Flanders”, p.4, Open Road Media

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• Nature I believe in. True art aims to, represent men and women, not as my little self would have them, but as they appear. My heroes and heroines I want not extreme types, all good or all bad; but human, mortal--partly good, partly bad. Realism I need. Pure mental abstractions have no significance for me.

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  Art, Hero, Believe

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• the State only aims at instilling those qualities in its public by which its demands are obeyed, and its exchequer is filled. Its highest attainment is the reduction of mankind to clockwork. In its atmosphere all those finer and more delicate liberties, which require treatment and spacious expansion, inevitably dry up and perish. The State requires a taxpaying machine in which there is no hitch, an exchequer in which there is never a deficit, and a public, monotonous, obedient, colorless, spiritless, moving humbly like a flock of sheep along a straight high road between two walls.

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  Wall, Moving, Government

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• What is failure except feebleness? And what is it to miss one's mark except to aim widely and weakly?

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  Failure, Missing, Mark

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• When passion and habit long lie in company it is only slowly and with incredulity that habit awakens to finds its companion fled, itself alone.

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  Lying, Passion, Long

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.383, Ouida

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• The heart of silver falls ever into the hands of brass. The sensitive herb is eaten as grass by the swine.

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  Fall, Heart, Destiny

  Ouida (2016). “Signa”, p.548, Ouida

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• There is nothing that you may not get people to believe in if you will only tell it them loud enough and often enough, till the welkin rings with it.

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  Believe, People, May

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.398, Ouida

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• We do not want to think. We do not want to hear. We do not care about anything. Only give us a good dinner and plenty of money, and let us outshine our neighbors. There is the Nineteenth Century Gospel.

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  Thinking, Giving, Want

  Ouida (1890*). “Othmar. Friendship. And other stories”

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• The loss of our illusions is the only loss from which we never recover.

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  Loss, Illusion

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• Great men always have dogs.

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  Dog, Men, Great Men

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• What we love once, we love forever. Shall there be joy in heaven over those who repent, yet no forgiveness for them upon earth? --"Wanda

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  Joy, Forever, Heaven

  Ouida (1893). “Wanda: Countess Von Szalras”

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• Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension. --"Wanda

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  Desire, Weakness, Words Of Sympathy

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• Humiliation is a guest that only comes to those who have made ready his resting-place, and will give him a fair welcome. ... no one can disgrace you save yourself.

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  Giving, Guests, Welcome

  Ouida (1870). “Puck: His Vicissitudes, Adventures, Observations, Conclusions, Friendships, and Philosophies, Vol. 2 of 3 (Classic Reprint)”, p.141

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• The song that we hear with our ears is only the song that is sung in our hearts.

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  Love, Inspirational, Song

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.11, Ouida

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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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