Ouida
Ouida
Ouidawas the pseudonym of the English novelist Maria Louise Ramé...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 January 1839
children genius influence
Genius cannot escape the taint of its time more than a child the influence of its begetting.
genius arrogant scorn
The scorn of genius is the most arrogant and the most boundless of all scorn.
strong joy suffering
The joy of a strong nature is as cloudless as its suffering is desolate.
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.
beautiful flower butterfly
Flowers belong to Fairyland: the flowers and the birds and the butterflies are all that the world has kept of its golden age--the only perfectly beautiful things on earth--joyous, innocent, half divine--useless, say they who are wiser than God.
excess retribution carrie
Excess always carries its own retribution.
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.
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.
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.