Ouida
Ouida
Ouidawas the pseudonym of the English novelist Maria Louise Ramé...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 January 1839
religious war soul-and-body
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.
trust fate disillusion
Who has passed by the fates of disillusion has died twice.
coward care firsts
One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards. --"Wanda
sadness heart chords
There is a chord in every heart that has a sigh in it if touched aright.
music sublime genius
Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.
love passion past
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.
love men oil
Opposition to a man in love is like oil to fire.
beauty self half
There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is half married.
beautiful death seems
It is only to those who have never lived that death ever can seems beautiful.
failure missing mark
What is failure except feebleness? And what is it to miss one's mark except to aim widely and weakly?
talking world talkers
No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world.
moving imagination culture
Imagination without culture is crippled and moves slowly; but it can be pure imagination, and rich also, as folk-lore will tell the vainest.
wit trifles bores
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.
dog gold bread
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.