Youth without faith is a day without sun. Ouida More Quotes by Ouida More Quotes From Ouida A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall. Ouida may men blood Talent wears well, genius wears itself out; talent drives a snug brougham in fact; genius, a sun-chariot in fancy. Ouida fancy genius science A man may be a great statesman, and yet dislike his wife, and like somebody else's. A man may be a great hero, and yet he may have an unseemly passion, or an unpaid tailor. But the British public does not understand this. ... It thinks, unhappily or happily as you may choose to consider, that genius should keep the whole ten commandments. Now, genius is conspicuous for breaking them. Ouida passion hero men the State only aims at instilling those qualities in its public by which its demands are obeyed, and its exchequer is filled. Its highest attainment is the reduction of mankind to clockwork. In its atmosphere all those finer and more delicate liberties, which require treatment and spacious expansion, inevitably dry up and perish. The State requires a taxpaying machine in which there is no hitch, an exchequer in which there is never a deficit, and a public, monotonous, obedient, colorless, spiritless, moving humbly like a flock of sheep along a straight high road between two walls. Ouida wall government moving Indifference is the invisible giant of the world. Ouida indifference giants world you have not a boat of your own, that is just it; that is what women always suffer from; they have to steer, but the craft is some one else's, and the haul too. Ouida women crafts suffering I have met a thousand scamps; but I never met one who considered himself so. Self-knowledge isn't so common. Ouida mets self common Humiliation is a guest that only comes to those who have made ready his resting-place, and will give him a fair welcome. ... no one can disgrace you save yourself. Ouida welcome guests giving There is nothing that you may not get people to believe in if you will only tell it them loud enough and often enough, till the welkin rings with it. Ouida may believe people In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration of them. An immense agony will have then ceased, but with it there will also have passed away the last smile of the world's youth. Ouida agony animal death When passion and habit long lie in company it is only slowly and with incredulity that habit awakens to finds its companion fled, itself alone. Ouida passion long lying Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering; and therefore its pursuit by women is much more to be regretted than its pursuit by men, because women pursue much more violently and recklessly what they pursue at all. Ouida feelings sports men The song that we hear with our ears is only the song that is sung in our hearts. Ouida song inspirational love Fame has only the span of the day, they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth something. Ouida fame heart people Excess always carries its own retribution. Ouida retribution carrie excess The fire of true enthusiasm is like the fires of Baku, which no water can ever quench, and which burn steadily on from night to day, and year to year, because their well-spring is eternal. Ouida spring night years Dissimulation is the only thing that makes society possible; without its amenities the world would be a bear-garden. Ouida garden would-be bears Christianity has ever been the enemy of human love. Ouida atheism christianity enemy Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice. Ouida emulation envy virtue Nature I believe in. True art aims to, represent men and women, not as my little self would have them, but as they appear. My heroes and heroines I want not extreme types, all good or all bad; but human, mortal--partly good, partly bad. Realism I need. Pure mental abstractions have no significance for me. Ouida hero believe art
