Ouida
Ouida
Ouidawas the pseudonym of the English novelist Maria Louise Ramé...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 January 1839
heart people fame
Fame has only the span of the day, they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth something.
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.
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.
reality people doe
Fancy tortures more people than does reality
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.
childhood early hope people summit value
We hope that when the summit is over, people will see the value of early childhood education.
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.