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Ouida Inspirational Quotes (68)

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Dissimulation is the only thing that makes society possible without its amenities the world would be a bear-garden.
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Youth without faith is a day without sun.
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An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.
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Charity is a flower not naturally of earthly growth, and it needs manuring with a promise of profit.
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There is no applause that so flatters a man as that which he wrings from unwilling throats.
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One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.
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Fame nowadays is little else but notoriety.
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There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is half married.
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The art of pleasing is more based on the art of seeming pleased than people think of, and she disarmed the prejudices of her enemies by the unaffected delight she appeared to take in themselves.
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Count art by gold, and it fetters the feet it once winged.
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Excess always carries its own retribution.
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Charity in various guises is an intruder the poor see often but courtesy and delicacy are visitants with which they are seldom honored.
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Fame has only the span of the day, they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth something.
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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.
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Fame! it is the flower of a day, that dies when the next sun rises.
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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.
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It is only to those who have never lived that death ever can seems beautiful.
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Hypocrites weep, and you cannot tell their tears from those of saints but no bad man ever laughed sweetly yet.
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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.
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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.
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Power is sweet, and when you are a little clerk you love its sweetness quite as much as if you were an emperor, and maybe you love it a good deal more.
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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.
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Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.
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Indifference is the invincible grant of the world.
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