Ouida
Ouida
Ouidawas the pseudonym of the English novelist Maria Louise Ramé...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 January 1839
littles scandal tongue
A little scandal is an excellent thing; nobody is ever brighter or happier of tongue than when he is making mischief of his neighbors.
hedgerows beard poison
Dishonor is like the Aaron's Beard in the hedgerows; it can only poison if it be plucked.
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.
hitting poverty kind
It is a kind of blindness--poverty. We can only grope through life when we are poor, hitting and maiming ourselves against every angle.
age facts
Friendship is such an elastic word. There never was an age when it stood for so many things in private, and was yet so absolutely non-existent in fact.
men air soul
The philosopher stands at his desk in the lecture hall, and demonstrates away the soul of man, and with exact thought measures out his atoms and resolves him back to gas and air. But the revolutionary, below in the crowd, hears, and only translates what he hears thus to his brethren: 'Let us drink while we may; property is robbery; this life is all; let us kill and eat; there is no God.
sweet strong smell
Honor is an old-world thing; but it smells sweet to those in whose hand it is strong.
christian gay religion
Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan.
drawing rooms honest
Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.
selfish people wish
Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.
art feet gold
Count art by gold, and it fetters the feet it once winged.
hope heart men
Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.
art sight poetry
for what is the gift of the poet and the artist except to see the sights which others cannot see and to hear the sounds that others cannot hear?
running hands oil
A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.