Quotes by Ouida

Ouida

[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.

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Lying

Religion

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A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

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Oil

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A great love is an absolute isolation and an absolute absorption.

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Love

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A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.

Blood

May

Men

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A little scandal is an excellent thing; nobody is ever brighter or happier of tongue than when he is making mischief of his neighbors.

Littles

Scandal

Tongue

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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.

Hero

Men

Passion

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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.

Lessons

New Life

Vices

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A pipe is a pocket philosopher,–a truer one than Socrates, for it never asks questions. Socrates must have been very tiresome, when one thinks of it.

Philosophy

Pockets

Thinking

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age is nothing but death that is conscious.

Age

Conscious

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An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

Comfort

Easy

Husband

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