Ouida
Ouida
Ouidawas the pseudonym of the English novelist Maria Louise Ramé...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 January 1839
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.
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.
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.
conducive developing gross increase language motor oral sitting tv watching
Watching TV is just passive, because they are just sitting there. You are not developing your gross motor skills. ... It is not conducive to oral language development. It is not going to increase your oral language skills.