Ouida
Ouida
Ouidawas the pseudonym of the English novelist Maria Louise Ramé...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 January 1839
coward care firsts
One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards. --"Wanda
lying butterfly gay
Brussels is a gay little city that lies as bright within its girdle of woodland as any butterfly that rests upon moss.
enemy atheism christianity
Christianity has ever been the enemy of human love.
winning atheism world
The radical defect in Christianity is that it tried to win the world by a bribe, and it has become a nullity.
excess retribution carrie
Excess always carries its own retribution.
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.
envy emulation virtue
Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.
garden bears would-be
Dissimulation is the only thing that makes society possible; without its amenities the world would be a bear-garden.
art believe hero
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.
stones architecture
Histories in blazonry and poems in stone.
heart people fame
Fame has only the span of the day, they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth something.
dream motivation adversity
It is the north wind that lashes men into Vikings; it is the soft, luscious south wind which lulls them to lotus dreams.
joy forever heaven
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
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.