I have met a thousand scamps; but I never met one who considered himself so. Self-knowledge isn't so common. Ouida More Quotes by Ouida More Quotes From Ouida Women hope that the dead love may revive; but men know that of all dead things none are so past recall as a dead passion. Ouida passionlovepast The art of pleasing is more based on the art of seeming pleased than people think of, and she disarmed the prejudices of her enemies by the unaffected delight she appeared to take in themselves. Ouida peopleartthinking The joy of a strong nature is as cloudless as its suffering is desolate. Ouida strongsufferingjoy It is a kind of blindness--poverty. We can only grope through life when we are poor, hitting and maiming ourselves against every angle. Ouida hittingpovertykind A great love is an absolute isolation and an absolute absorption. Ouida absolutesisolationlove Hypocrites weep, and you cannot tell their tears from those of saints; but no bad man ever laughed sweetly yet. Ouida laughterhypocritemen Most crimes are sanctioned in some form or other when they take grand names. Ouida crimeprisonnames Friendship needs to be rooted in respect, but love can live upon itself alone Ouida rootedfriendshipneeds Charity in various guises is an intruder the poor see often; but courtesy and delicacy are visitants with which they are seldom honored. Ouida delicacycourtesycharity There is no knife that cuts so sharply and with such poisoned blade as treachery. Ouida bladesknivescutting It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you. Ouida kissinghard-workmother Love, the one supreme, unceasing source of human felicity, the one sole joy which lifts the whole mortal existence into the empyrean, was by it [Christianity] degraded into the mere mechanical action of reproduction. Ouida actionjoyreligion Flowers belong to Fairyland: the flowers and the birds and the butterflies are all that the world has kept of its golden age--the only perfectly beautiful things on earth--joyous, innocent, half divine--useless, say they who are wiser than God. Ouida butterflyflowerbeautiful Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey. Ouida hopeheartmen Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms. Ouida honestdrawingrooms 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. Ouida gaychristianreligion 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? Ouida prayersongbeautiful Why is youth so short and age so long? Ouida youthagelong We only see clearly when we have reached the depths of woe. Ouida woeafflictiondepth age is nothing but death that is conscious. Ouida consciousage
