It needs a great nature to bear the weight of a great gratitude. 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 brothermotherfather Belief of some sort is the lifeblood of Art. Ouida beliefart 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 scandaltonguelittles Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold. Ouida scandalarrowsfall The loss of our illusions is the only loss from which we never recover. Ouida illusionloss 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 cyclingacceptancemen Great men always have dogs. Ouida great-mendogmen Great men have always had dogs. Ouida petdogmen 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 errorsmayfriendship An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life. Ouida husbandcomforteasy 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 lessonsnew-lifevices 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 imaginationculturemoving Dishonor is like the Aaron's Beard in the hedgerows; it can only poison if it be plucked. Ouida hedgerowsbeardpoison 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 soulairmen Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan. Ouida unknowngaychristianitydeath
