Ouida
Ouida
Ouidawas the pseudonym of the English novelist Maria Louise Ramé...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 January 1839
husband comfort easy
An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.
friendship errors may
Friendship is usually treated...as a tough...thing which will survive all manner of bad treatment. But this is an exceedingly great and foolish error; it may die in an hour of a single unwise word....
genius arrogant scorn
The scorn of genius is the most arrogant and the most boundless of all scorn.
laughter hypocrite men
Hypocrites weep, and you cannot tell their tears from those of saints; but no bad man ever laughed sweetly yet.
philosophy thinking pockets
A pipe is a pocket philosopher,--a truer one than Socrates, for it never asks questions. Socrates must have been very tiresome, when one thinks of it.
hitting poverty kind
It is a kind of blindness--poverty. We can only grope through life when we are poor, hitting and maiming ourselves against every angle.
rights seeming
Woman already controls by not seeming to do so. Talk no more of her rights.
excess retribution carrie
Excess always carries its own retribution.
enemy atheism christianity
Christianity has ever been the enemy of human love.
stones architecture
Histories in blazonry and poems in stone.
garden bears would-be
Dissimulation is the only thing that makes society possible; without its amenities the world would be a bear-garden.
envy emulation virtue
Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.
spring night years
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.
conducive developing gross increase language motor oral sitting tv watching
Watching TV is just passive, because they are just sitting there. You are not developing your gross motor skills. ... It is not conducive to oral language development. It is not going to increase your oral language skills.