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.
drawing rooms honest
Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.
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.
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.
excess retribution carrie
Excess always carries its own retribution.
envy emulation virtue
Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.
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.