Quotes by Ouida

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

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

“An easygoing husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.”

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

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

“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...”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“Even of death Christianity has made a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan and the stoical repose of the Indian.”

“It is the trifles of life that are its bores, after all. Most men can meet ruin calmly, for instance, or laugh when they lie in a ditch with their own knee-joint and their hunter's spine broken ove...”

“What use was it to argue with a little idiot like this? Indeed, peasants never do argue; they use abuse.”

“When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time.”

“Brussels is a gay little city that lies as bright within its girdle of woodland as any butterfly that rests upon moss.”