Ouida
Ouida
Ouidawas the pseudonym of the English novelist Maria Louise Ramé...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 January 1839
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.
art belief
Belief of some sort is the lifeblood of Art.
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.
art feet gold
Count art by gold, and it fetters the feet it once winged.
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?
light brain sunrise
There is no more terrible woe upon earth than the woe of the stricken brain, which remembers the days of its strength, the living light of its reason, the sunrise of its proud intelligence, and knows that these have passed away like a tale that is told ...
thinking giving care
We do not want to think. We do not want to hear. We do not care about anything. Only give us a good dinner and plenty of money, and let us outshine our neighbors. There is the Nineteenth Century Gospel.
love men oil
Opposition to a man in love is like oil to fire.
men rogues fats
I have known men who have been sold and bought a hundred times, who have only got very fat and very comfortable in the process of exchange.
rights seeming
Woman already controls by not seeming to do so. Talk no more of her rights.
laughter hypocrite men
Hypocrites weep, and you cannot tell their tears from those of saints; but no bad man ever laughed sweetly yet.
strong joy suffering
The joy of a strong nature is as cloudless as its suffering is desolate.
world indifference invincible
Indifference is the invincible grant of the world.
israel gold ark
You know the Ark of Israel and the calf of Belial were both made of gold. Religion has never yet changed the metal of her one adoration.