Ouida
Ouida
Ouidawas the pseudonym of the English novelist Maria Louise Ramé...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 January 1839
friendship goodbye farewell
Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
hope heart men
Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.
christian gay religion
Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan.
drawing rooms honest
Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.
christian believe humble
The Christian religion, outwardly and even in intention humble, does, without meaning it, teach man to regard himself as the most important of all created things. Man surveys the starry heavens and hears with his ears of the plurality of worlds; yet his religion bids him believe that his alone out of these innumerable spheres is the object of his master's love and sacrifice.
religious war soul-and-body
Christianity ... has produced the iniquities of the Inquisition, the egotism and celibacy of the monasteries, the fury of religious wars, the ferocity of the Hussite, of the Catholic, of the Puritan, of the Spaniard, of the Irish Orangeman and of the Irish Papist; it has divided families, alienated friends, lighted the torch of civil war, and borne the virgin and the greybeard to the burning pile, broken delicate limbs upon the wheel and wrung the souls and bodies of innocent creatures on the rack; all this it has done, and done in the name of God.
beauty self half
There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is half married.
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.
christianity formulas
Christianity is a formula: it is nothing more.
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.
names prison crime
Most crimes are sanctioned in some form or other when they take grand names.
kind magician familiarity
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
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....
rights seeming
Woman already controls by not seeming to do so. Talk no more of her rights.