Ouida
Ouida
Ouidawas the pseudonym of the English novelist Maria Louise Ramé...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 January 1839
beautiful song prayer
Is there a more pitiable spectacle than that of a wife contending with others for that charm in her husband's sight which no philters and no prayers can renew when once it has fled forever? Women are so unwise. Love is like a bird's song beautiful and eloquent when heard in forest freedom, harsh and worthless in repetition when sung from behind prison bars. You cannot secure love by vigilance, by environment, by captivity. What use is it to keep the person of a man beside you if his soul be truant from you?
littles scandal tongue
A little scandal is an excellent thing; nobody is ever brighter or happier of tongue than when he is making mischief of his neighbors.
new-life lessons pages
A new life is innocent, like an empty page, ready for the hard lessons ahead. GENNITA LOW, Facing Fear To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
age facts
Friendship is such an elastic word. There never was an age when it stood for so many things in private, and was yet so absolutely non-existent in fact.
names prison crime
Most crimes are sanctioned in some form or other when they take grand names.
friendship needs rooted
Friendship needs to be rooted in respect, but love can live upon itself alone
dog men pet
Great men have always had dogs.
desire weakness words-of-sympathy
Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension. --"Wanda
sports men feelings
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.
song heart ears
The song that we hear with our ears is only the song that is sung in our hearts.
vices innocence kind
To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
kind magician familiarity
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
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....