Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Honor is an old-world thing but it smells sweet to those in whose hand it is strong.
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
Hand
Strong
Hands
Thing
Smells
World
Smell
Honor
Whose
Sweet
More quotes by Ouida
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
Great men have always had dogs.
Ouida
Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.
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
Dishonor is like the Aaron's Beard in the hedgerows it can only poison if it be plucked.
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
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
Who has passed by the fates of disillusion has died twice.
Ouida
Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.
Ouida
It is only to those who have never lived that death ever can seems beautiful.
Ouida
Opposition to a man in love is like oil to fire.
Ouida
Fame! it is the flower of a day, that dies when the next sun rises.
Ouida
Belief of some sort is the lifeblood of Art.
Ouida
It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you.
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
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
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
A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
Ouida
Women hope that the dead love may revive but men know that of all dead things none are so past recall as a dead passion.
Ouida
Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold.
Ouida
