Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Brussels is a gay little city that lies as bright within its girdle of woodland as any butterfly that rests upon moss.
Ouida
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Ouida
Age: 69 †
Born: 1839
Born: January 1
Died: 1908
Died: January 25
Novelist
Writer
Bury St Edmunds
Suffolk
Marie Louise de la Ramée
Marie Louise Ramé
Marie Louise de la Ramee
Marie Louise Rame
Butterfly
Upon
Bright
Littles
Gay
Girdle
Little
Lies
Girdles
City
Woodland
Cities
Brussels
Moss
Within
Rests
Lying
More quotes by Ouida
The world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace.
Ouida
It is a kind of blindness--poverty. We can only grope through life when we are poor, hitting and maiming ourselves against every angle.
Ouida
Charity in various guises is an intruder the poor see often but courtesy and delicacy are visitants with which they are seldom honored.
Ouida
Excess always carries its own retribution.
Ouida
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
Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold.
Ouida
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
for what is the gift of the poet and the artist except to see the sights which others cannot see and to hear the sounds that others cannot hear?
Ouida
A little scandal is an excellent thing nobody is ever brighter or happier of tongue than when he is making mischief of his neighbors.
Ouida
It is only to those who have never lived that death ever can seems beautiful.
Ouida
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.
Ouida
The heart of silver falls ever into the hands of brass. The sensitive herb is eaten as grass by the swine.
Ouida
Fame nowadays is little else but notoriety.
Ouida
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
Dishonor is like the Aaron's Beard in the hedgerows it can only poison if it be plucked.
Ouida
A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.
Ouida
There is a chord in every heart that has a sigh in it if touched aright.
Ouida
Indifference is the invisible giant of the world.
Ouida
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
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
