Ouida
Ouida
Ouidawas the pseudonym of the English novelist Maria Louise Ramé...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 January 1839
love-is graves
Love is cruel as the grave.
wit trifles bores
nothing is so pleasant ... as to display your worldly wisdom in epigram and dissertation, but it is a trifle tedious to hear another person display theirs.
art thinking people
The art of pleasing is more based on the art of seeming pleased than people think of, and she disarmed the prejudices of her enemies by the unaffected delight she appeared to take in themselves.
acceptance men cycling
If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual moment, such a method of locomotion as cycling could never have found acceptance; no man or woman with the slightest aesthetic sense could assume the ludicrous position necessary for it.
christianity formulas
Christianity is a formula: it is nothing more.
love isolation absolutes
A great love is an absolute isolation and an absolute absorption.
dog men pet
Great men have always had dogs.
dog men great-men
Great men always have dogs.
friendship needs rooted
Friendship needs to be rooted in respect, but love can live upon itself alone
names prison crime
Most crimes are sanctioned in some form or other when they take grand names.
self common mets
I have met a thousand scamps; but I never met one who considered himself so. Self-knowledge isn't so common.
world giants indifference
Indifference is the invisible giant of the world.
husband comfort easy
An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.
kind magician familiarity
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.