Ouida Quotes

There are wrongs for which religion makes no provision, and of which it has no comprehension.--"Wand...

To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

Fame has only the span of the day they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth somet...

What is it that love does to a woman? Without it she only sleeps with it alone she lives.

What we love once, we love forever. Shall there be joy in heaven over those who repent, yet no forgi...

Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension.--"Wanda

Is there a more pitiable spectacle than that of a wife contending with others for that charm in her ...

I only care for the subjective life; I am very German, you see: The woods interest me, and the world...

He mistook, as the cleverest men often do mistake, in underrating the cruelty of women.

I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.

The world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace.

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energ...

Death had been more pitiful to them than longer life would have been. It had taken the one in the lo...

He crept up, and touched the face of the boy. "Didst thou dream that I should be faithless and forsa...

Truth is a rough honest helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing r...

It is the north wind that lashes men into Vikings it is the soft luscious south wind which lulls t...

In the violent scorn of her revolted pride, of her indignant honor, had she forgotten a lowlier yet ...

A cruel story runs on wheels and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

She was like a queen who beholds the virgin soil of her kingdom invaded and wasted by a traitor.Any ...

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look around them.

An easygoing husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.--"Wanda