Ouida Quotations

Opposition to a man in love is like oil to fire.

I have known men who have been sold and bought a hundred times, who have only got very fat and very comfortable in the process of exchange.

Woman already controls by not seeming to do so. Talk no more of her rights.

Hypocrites weep, and you cannot tell their tears from those of saints; but no bad man ever laughed sweetly yet.

The joy of a strong nature is as cloudless as its suffering is desolate.

Indifference is the invincible grant of the world.

You know the Ark of Israel and the calf of Belial were both made of gold. Religion has never yet changed the metal of her one adoration.

The scorn of genius is the most arrogant and the most boundless of all scorn.

Genius cannot escape the taint of its time more than a child the influence of its begetting.

The bread of bitterness is the food on which men grow to their fullest stature; the waters of bitterness are the debatable ford through which they reach the shores of wisdom; the ashes boldly grasped and eaten without faltering are the price that must be paid for the golden fruit of knowledge.