Ouida
Ouida
Ouidawas the pseudonym of the English novelist Maria Louise Ramé...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 January 1839
lying hypocrisy religion
[On Christianity:] Its lip-service and its empty rites have made it the easiest of all tasks for the usurer to cloak his cruelties, the miser to hide his avarice, the lawyer to condone his lies, the sinner of all social sins to purchase the social immunity from them by outward deference to churches.
believe people may
There is nothing that you may not get people to believe in if you will only tell it them loud enough and often enough, till the welkin rings with it.
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.
giving guests welcome
Humiliation is a guest that only comes to those who have made ready his resting-place, and will give him a fair welcome. ... no one can disgrace you save yourself.
age conscious
age is nothing but death that is conscious.
talking world talkers
No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world.
excess retribution carrie
Excess always carries it's own retributions.
cutting knives blades
There is no knife that cuts so sharply and with such poisoned blade as treachery.
trust fate disillusion
Who has passed by the fates of disillusion has died twice.
music sublime genius
Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.
art belief
Belief of some sort is the lifeblood of Art.
men applause throat
there is no applause that so flatters a man as that which he wrings from unwilling throats ...
sadness heart chords
There is a chord in every heart that has a sigh in it if touched aright.
sweet clerks littles
Power is sweet, and when you are a little clerk you love its sweetness quite as much as if you were an emperor, and maybe you love it a good deal more.