Ouida
Ouida
Ouidawas the pseudonym of the English novelist Maria Louise Ramé...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 January 1839
littles fame notoriety
Fame nowadays is little else but notoriety ...
gratitude bears needs
It needs a great nature to bear the weight of a great gratitude.
death atheist oblivion
Death! It is rest to the aged, it is oblivion to the atheist, it is immortality to the poet!
witty thinking doe
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!
thinking giving care
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.
long age youth
Why is youth so short and age so long?
charity delicacy poor
Charity in various guises is an intruder the poor see often; but courtesy and delicacy are visitants with which they are seldom honored.
light brain sunrise
There is no more terrible woe upon earth than the woe of the stricken brain, which remembers the days of its strength, the living light of its reason, the sunrise of its proud intelligence, and knows that these have passed away like a tale that is told ...
excess retribution carrie
Excess always carries it's own retributions.
love isolation absolutes
A great love is an absolute isolation and an absolute absorption.
dog men great-men
Great men always have dogs.
christianity formulas
Christianity is a formula: it is nothing more.
acceptance men cycling
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.
loss illusion
The loss of our illusions is the only loss from which we never recover.