About Ouida: Ouida was the pseudonym of the English novelist Maria Louise Ramé (although she preferred to be known as Marie Louise de la Ramée).
The world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace.
Is there a more pitiable spectacle than that of a wife contending with others for that charm in her husband's sight which no philters and no prayers can renew when once it has fled forever? Women are so unwise. Love is like a bird's song beautiful an...
I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.
He mistook, as the cleverest men often do mistake, in underrating the cruelty of women.
I only care for the subjective life; I am very German, you see: The woods interest me, and the world does not.
Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.
To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
In the violent scorn of her revolted pride, of her indignant honor, had she forgotten a lowlier yet harder duty left undone? In her contempt and dread of yielding to mere amorous weakness had she stifled and denied the cry of pity, the cry of conscie...
What we love once, we love forever. Shall there be joy in heaven over those who repent, yet no forgiveness for them upon earth? --"Wanda
One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards. --"Wanda
There are wrongs for which religion makes no provision, and of which it has no comprehension. --"Wanda
Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension. --"Wanda
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.
Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan.
Petty laws breed great crimes.
It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you.
An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.
