Quotes by Ouida

“I only care for the subjective life; I am very German, you see: The woods interest me, and the world does not.”

“The world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace.”

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

“Death had been more pitiful to them than longer life would have been. It had taken the one in the loyalty of love, and the other in the innocence of faith, from a world which for love has no recomp...”

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

“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.”

“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 ar...”

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

“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”

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

“She was like a queen who beholds the virgin soil of her kingdom invaded and wasted by a traitor.Any other thing she would have pardoned: infidelity, indifference, cruelty, any sins of manhood's cap...”

“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 st...”

“He crept up, and touched the face of the boy. "Didst thou dream that I should be faithless and forsake thee? I a dog?" said that mute caress.”

“Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.”

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

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

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

“It is the north wind that lashes men into Vikings it is the soft luscious south wind which lulls them to lotus dreams.”

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