Ouida, born Mary Catherine Hale, was a renowned 19th-century British novelist. Known for her portrayal of women's emotional lives and romantic adventures, her works have been beloved by readers. Ouida's writing style is unique and elegant, leaving a profound impact on literature.
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“He mistook, as the cleverest men often do mistake, in underrating the cruelty of women.”
Source: Wanda, Countess von Szalras.
“Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look around them.”
“One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards. --"Wanda”
“The loss of our illusions is the only loss from which we never recover.”
Source: Chandos: A Novel
Source: Puck: His Vicissitudes, Adventures, Observations, Conclusions, Friendships, and Philosophies
Source: Chandos: A Novel
“Dishonor is like the Aaron's Beard in the hedgerows; it can only poison if it be plucked.”
Source: Puck: His Vicissitudes, Adventures, Observations, Conclusions, Friendships, and Philosophies
Source: Othmar. Friendship. And other stories
Source: A village commune. Idalia. Silver chimes and golden fetters.
Source: Bébée, or Two Little Wooden Shoes
Source: Bébée, or Two Little Wooden Shoes
“Christianity has ever been the enemy of human love.”
Source: Views and Opinions
“Histories in blazonry and poems in stone.”
Source: A Leaf in the Storm: And Other Stories
Source: Works: Pascarel
Source: Held in Bondage: Or, Granville de Vigne a Tale of the Day
“Excess always carries its own retribution.”
Source: Princess Napraxine
“Youth without faith is a day without sun.”
Source: Chandos: A Novel
Source: Bébée, or Two Little Wooden Shoes
“Genius cannot escape the taint of its time more than a child the influence of its begetting.”
Source: Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida
“The scorn of genius is the most arrogant and the most boundless of all scorn.”
Source: Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida
“The joy of a strong nature is as cloudless as its suffering is desolate.”
Source: Puck. In Maremma
Source: Moths
Source: Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida
Source: Pascarèl: Only a Story
“Woman already controls by not seeming to do so. Talk no more of her rights.”
Source: Puck: His Vicissitudes, Adventures, Observations, Conclusions, Friendships, and Philosophies
Source: Chandos: A Novel
“We only see clearly when we have reached the depths of woe.”
“There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is half married.”
Source: Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida
Source: Signa
“It is only to those who have never lived that death ever can seems beautiful.”
Source: In Maremma: A Story
“Fame! it is the flower of a day, that dies when the next sun rises.”
Source: Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida
Source: Works: Pascarel
“Honor is an old-world thing; but it smells sweet to those in whose hand it is strong.”
Source: Moths. The marquis's tactics. Meleagris Gallopavo. Guilderoy
Source: Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida