Youth without faith is a day without sun. Ouida More Quotes by Ouida More Quotes From Ouida Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look round them. Ouida optimism men looks Fancy tortures more people than does reality Ouida doe reality people There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is half married. Ouida half self beauty It is quite easy for stupid people to be happy; they believe in fables, and they trot on in a beaten track like a horse on a tramway. Ouida horse stupid happiness Count art by gold, and it fetters the feet it once winged. Ouida gold feet art It needs a great nature to bear the weight of a great gratitude. Ouida gratitude weight needs Woman already controls by not seeming to do so. Talk no more of her rights. Ouida seeming rights [On Christianity:] Its lip-service and its empty rites have made it the easiest of all tasks for the usurer to cloak his cruelties, the miser to hide his avarice, the lawyer to condone his lies, the sinner of all social sins to purchase the social immunity from them by outward deference to churches. Ouida hypocrisy lying religion 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. Ouida rogues hundred men 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. Ouida golden water men Charity is a flower not naturally of earthly growth, and it needs manuring with a promise of profit. Ouida growth flower promise The heart of silver falls ever into the hands of brass. The sensitive herb is eaten as grass by the swine. Ouida destiny heart fall It is only to those who have never lived that death ever can seems beautiful. Ouida seems beautiful death What we love once, we love forever. Shall there be joy in heaven over those who repent, yet no forgiveness for them upon earth? --"Wanda Ouida forever joy heaven Fame nowadays is little else but notoriety. Ouida notoriety fame littles For Pastrasche was their alpha and omega; their treasury and granary; their store of gold and wand of wealth; their bread-winner and minister; their only friend and comforter. ... Pastrasche was their dog. Ouida gold dog bread Death! It is rest to the aged, it is oblivion to the atheist, it is immortality to the poet! Ouida oblivion atheist death When you talk yourself, you think how witty, how original, how acute you are; but when another does so, you are very apt to think only - What a crib from Rochefoucauld! Ouida doe witty thinking We do not want to think. We do not want to hear. We do not care about anything. Only give us a good dinner and plenty of money, and let us outshine our neighbors. There is the Nineteenth Century Gospel. Ouida want giving thinking There is no more terrible woe upon earth than the woe of the stricken brain, which remembers the days of its strength, the living light of its reason, the sunrise of its proud intelligence, and knows that these have passed away like a tale that is told. Ouida sunrise light brain
