Ouida
Ouida
Ouidawas the pseudonym of the English novelist Maria Louise Ramé...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 January 1839
giving guests welcome
Humiliation is a guest that only comes to those who have made ready his resting-place, and will give him a fair welcome. ... no one can disgrace you save yourself.
age conscious
age is nothing but death that is conscious.
talking world talkers
No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world.
excess retribution carrie
Excess always carries it's own retributions.
cutting knives blades
There is no knife that cuts so sharply and with such poisoned blade as treachery.
trust fate disillusion
Who has passed by the fates of disillusion has died twice.
music sublime genius
Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.
art belief
Belief of some sort is the lifeblood of Art.
men applause throat
there is no applause that so flatters a man as that which he wrings from unwilling throats ...
sadness heart chords
There is a chord in every heart that has a sigh in it if touched aright.
sweet clerks littles
Power is sweet, and when you are a little clerk you love its sweetness quite as much as if you were an emperor, and maybe you love it a good deal more.
love-is graves
Love is cruel as the grave.
wit trifles bores
nothing is so pleasant ... as to display your worldly wisdom in epigram and dissertation, but it is a trifle tedious to hear another person display theirs.
art thinking people
The art of pleasing is more based on the art of seeming pleased than people think of, and she disarmed the prejudices of her enemies by the unaffected delight she appeared to take in themselves.