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No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world.
Ouida
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Ouida
Age: 69 †
Born: 1839
Born: January 1
Died: 1908
Died: January 25
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Bury St Edmunds
Suffolk
Marie Louise de la Ramée
Marie Louise Ramé
Marie Louise de la Ramee
Marie Louise Rame
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More quotes by Ouida
It needs a great nature to bear the weight of a great gratitude.
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
Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.
Ouida
Fame has only the span of the day, they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth something.
Ouida
Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.
Ouida
Christianity has been cruel in much to the human race. It has quenched much of the sweet joy and gladness of life it has caused the natural passions and affections of it to be held as sins.
Ouida
Honor is an old-world thing but it smells sweet to those in whose hand it is strong.
Ouida
Excess always carries its own retribution.
Ouida
Youth without faith is a day without sun.
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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We only see clearly when we have reached the depths of woe.
Ouida
There is a chord in every heart that has a sigh in it if touched aright.
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
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
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
Talent wears well, genius wears itself out talent drives a snug brougham in fact genius, a sun-chariot in fancy.
Ouida
One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.
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
Dissimulation is the only thing that makes society possible without its amenities the world would be a bear-garden.
Ouida
Fame nowadays is little else but notoriety.
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