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Ouida Quotes

Ouida quotes

English Novelist January 7, 1839 – January 25, 1908

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Is there a more pitiable spectacle than that of a wife contending with others for that charm in her husband's sight which no philters and no prayers can renew when once it has fled forever? Women are so unwise. Love is like a bird's song beautiful and eloquent when heard in forest freedom, harsh and worthless in repetition when sung from behind prison bars. You cannot secure love by vigilance, by environment, by captivity. What use is it to keep the person of a man beside you if his soul be... Ouida
What we love once, we love forever. Shall there be joy in heaven over those who repent, yet no forgiveness for them upon earth? --"Wanda Ouida
Her life had been altogether artificial; she had always been a great garden lily in a hot-house, she had never known what it was to be blown by a fresh breeze on a sun-swept moorland like a heather flower. The hot-house shelters from all chills and is full of perfume, but you can see no horizon from it; that alone is the joy of the moorland. Ouida
Ouida quote: "An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life."
An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life. Ouida
Ouida quote: "I only care for the subjective life; I am very German, you..."
I only care for the subjective life; I am very German, you see: The woods interest me, and the world does not. Ouida
Ouida quote: "Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be..."
Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye. Ouida
It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you. Ouida
Ouida quote: "Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to..."
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness. Ouida
Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others. Ouida
Ouida quote: "He mistook, as the cleverest men often do mistake, in..."
He mistook, as the cleverest men often do mistake, in underrating the cruelty of women. Ouida
Ouida quote: "Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey."
Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey. Ouida
Ouida quote: "One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God..."
One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.--"Wanda Ouida
Ouida quote: "The world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace."
The world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace. Ouida
Ouida quote: "Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to..."
Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan. Ouida
Ouida quote: "To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of..."
To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery. Ouida

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