Ouida
Ouida
Ouidawas the pseudonym of the English novelist Maria Louise Ramé...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 January 1839
kind magician familiarity
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
vices innocence kind
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.
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.
genius arrogant scorn
The scorn of genius is the most arrogant and the most boundless of all scorn.
children genius influence
Genius cannot escape the taint of its time more than a child the influence of its begetting.