Ouida
Ouida
Ouidawas the pseudonym of the English novelist Maria Louise Ramé...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 January 1839
sports men feelings
Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering; and therefore its pursuit by women is much more to be regretted than its pursuit by men, because women pursue much more violently and recklessly what they pursue at all.
animal agony needs
In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration of them. An immense agony will have then ceased, but with it there will also have passed away the last smile of the world's youth.
desire weakness words-of-sympathy
Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension. --"Wanda
coward care firsts
One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards. --"Wanda
lying butterfly gay
Brussels is a gay little city that lies as bright within its girdle of woodland as any butterfly that rests upon moss.
enemy atheism christianity
Christianity has ever been the enemy of human love.
winning atheism world
The radical defect in Christianity is that it tried to win the world by a bribe, and it has become a nullity.
excess retribution carrie
Excess always carries its own retribution.
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.
envy emulation virtue
Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.
garden bears would-be
Dissimulation is the only thing that makes society possible; without its amenities the world would be a bear-garden.
art believe hero
Nature I believe in. True art aims to, represent men and women, not as my little self would have them, but as they appear. My heroes and heroines I want not extreme types, all good or all bad; but human, mortal--partly good, partly bad. Realism I need. Pure mental abstractions have no significance for me.
stones architecture
Histories in blazonry and poems in stone.
heart people fame
Fame has only the span of the day, they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth something.