Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look round them. Ouida More Quotes by Ouida More Quotes From Ouida The radical defect in Christianity is that it tried to win the world by a bribe, and it has become a nullity. Ouida atheismwinningworld Histories in blazonry and poems in stone. Ouida architecturestones Brussels is a gay little city that lies as bright within its girdle of woodland as any butterfly that rests upon moss. Ouida butterflygaylying It is the north wind that lashes men into Vikings; it is the soft, luscious south wind which lulls them to lotus dreams. Ouida adversitymotivationdream Indifference is the invincible grant of the world. Ouida invincibleindifferenceworld 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. Ouida arkisraelgold The scorn of genius is the most arrogant and the most boundless of all scorn. Ouida scornarrogantgenius Genius cannot escape the taint of its time more than a child the influence of its begetting. Ouida influencegeniuschildren Christianity has ever been the enemy of human love; it has forever cursed and expelled and crucified the one passion which sweetens and smiles on human life, which makes the desert blossom as the rose, and which glorifies the common things and common ways of earth. It made of this, the angel of life, a shape of sin and darkness ... Even in the unions which it reluctantly permitted, it degraded and dwarfed the passion which it could not entirely exclude, and permitted it coarsely to exist for the mere necessity of procreation. Ouida passionangelrose Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension. --"Wanda Ouida words-of-sympathyweaknessdesire Christianity ... has produced the iniquities of the Inquisition, the egotism and celibacy of the monasteries, the fury of religious wars, the ferocity of the Hussite, of the Catholic, of the Puritan, of the Spaniard, of the Irish Orangeman and of the Irish Papist; it has divided families, alienated friends, lighted the torch of civil war, and borne the virgin and the greybeard to the burning pile, broken delicate limbs upon the wheel and wrung the souls and bodies of innocent creatures on the rack; all this it has done, and done in the name of God. Ouida religioussoul-and-bodywar Christianity is a formula: it is nothing more. Ouida formulaschristianity The Christian religion, outwardly and even in intention humble, does, without meaning it, teach man to regard himself as the most important of all created things. Man surveys the starry heavens and hears with his ears of the plurality of worlds; yet his religion bids him believe that his alone out of these innumerable spheres is the object of his master's love and sacrifice. Ouida humblechristianbelieve One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards. Ouida cowardcaredoe Christianity has been cruel in much to the human race. It has quenched much of the sweet joy and gladness of life; it has caused the natural passions and affections of it to be held as sins. Ouida passionracesweet What is failure except feebleness? And what is it to miss one's mark except to aim widely and weakly? Ouida markfailuremissing Fame! it is the flower of a day, that dies when the next sun rises. Ouida nextflowersun No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world. Ouida great-thingstalkingworld Friendship is such an elastic word. There never was an age when it stood for so many things in private, and was yet so absolutely non-existent in fact. Ouida agefacts Who has passed by the fates of disillusion has died twice. Ouida disillusionfatetrust
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