Ouida

Novelist

1839-01-01

Quotes by Ouida

• The world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace.

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

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

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• 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 and eloquent when heard in forest freedom, harsh and worthless in repetition when sung from behind prison bars.You cannot secure love by vigilance, by environment, by captivity. What use is it to keep the person of a man beside you if his soul be truant from you?

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

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

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

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• 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 recompense and for faith no fulfillment.

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

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

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

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• The world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace.

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

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• 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 recompense and for faith no fulfillment.

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• 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 and eloquent when heard in forest freedom, harsh and worthless in repetition when sung from behind prison bars.You cannot secure love by vigilance, by environment, by captivity. What use is it to keep the person of a man beside you if his soul be truant from you?

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

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

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

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• Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

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

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