I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman. Ouida More Quotes by Ouida More Quotes From Ouida 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. Ouida brother mother father Belief of some sort is the lifeblood of Art. Ouida belief art A little scandal is an excellent thing; nobody is ever brighter or happier of tongue than when he is making mischief of his neighbors. Ouida scandal tongue littles Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold. Ouida scandal arrows fall The loss of our illusions is the only loss from which we never recover. Ouida illusion loss If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual moment, such a method of locomotion as cycling could never have found acceptance; no man or woman with the slightest aesthetic sense could assume the ludicrous position necessary for it. Ouida cycling acceptance men Great men always have dogs. Ouida great-men dog men Great men have always had dogs. Ouida pet dog men Friendship is usually treated...as a tough...thing which will survive all manner of bad treatment. But this is an exceedingly great and foolish error; it may die in an hour of a single unwise word. Ouida errors may friendship An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life. Ouida husband comfort easy A new life is innocent, like an empty page, ready for the hard lessons ahead. GENNITA LOW, Facing Fear To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery. Ouida lessons new-life vices Imagination without culture is crippled and moves slowly; but it can be pure imagination, and rich also, as folk-lore will tell the vainest. Ouida imagination culture moving Dishonor is like the Aaron's Beard in the hedgerows; it can only poison if it be plucked. Ouida hedgerows beard poison The philosopher stands at his desk in the lecture hall, and demonstrates away the soul of man, and with exact thought measures out his atoms and resolves him back to gas and air. But the revolutionary, below in the crowd, hears, and only translates what he hears thus to his brethren: 'Let us drink while we may; property is robbery; this life is all; let us kill and eat; there is no God. Ouida soul air men Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan. Ouida unknown gay christianity death
