Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world.
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
Talker
Talkers
Talking
Ever
Great
Thing
World
More quotes by Ouida
Excess always carries its own retribution.
Ouida
Great men always have dogs.
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
Fancy tortures more people than does reality
Ouida
One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.
Ouida
We only see clearly when we have reached the depths of woe.
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
Indifference is the invincible grant of the world.
Ouida
Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold.
Ouida
Brussels is a gay little city that lies as bright within its girdle of woodland as any butterfly that rests upon moss.
Ouida
Talent wears well, genius wears itself out talent drives a snug brougham in fact genius, a sun-chariot in fancy.
Ouida
Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.
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.
Ouida
Friendship is such an elastic word. There never was an age when it stood for so many things in private, and was yet so absolutely non-existent in fact.
Ouida
I have known men who have been sold and bought a hundred times, who have only got very fat and very comfortable in the process of exchange.
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
Count art by gold, and it fetters the feet it once winged.
Ouida
Youth without faith is a day without sun.
Ouida
Genius scorns the power of gold: it is wrong. Gold is the war-scythe on its chariot, which mows down the millions of its foes, and gives free passage to the sun-coursers with which it leaves those heavenly fields of light for the gross battlefields of earth.
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