Ouida Quotations | Page 2

For Pastrasche was their alpha and omega; their treasury and granary; their store of gold and wand of wealth; their bread-winner and minister; their only friend and comforter. ... Pastrasche was their dog.

Fame nowadays is little else but notoriety ...

A little scandal is an excellent thing; nobody is ever brighter or happier of tongue than when he is making mischief of his neighbors.

Dishonor is like the Aaron's Beard in the hedgerows; it can only poison if it be plucked.

A new life is innocent, like an empty page, ready for the hard lessons ahead. GENNITA LOW, Facing Fear To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

It is a kind of blindness--poverty. We can only grope through life when we are poor, hitting and maiming ourselves against every angle.

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.

The philosopher stands at his desk in the lecture hall, and demonstrates away the soul of man, and with exact thought measures out his atoms and resolves him back to gas and air. But the revolutionary, below in the crowd, hears, and only translates what he hears thus to his brethren: 'Let us drink while we may; property is robbery; this life is all; let us kill and eat; there is no God.

Honor is an old-world thing; but it smells sweet to those in whose hand it is strong.

Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

Count art by gold, and it fetters the feet it once winged.

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?

In its permission to man to render subject to him all other living creatures of the earth, it continued the cruelty of the barbarian and the pagan, and endowed these with what appeared a divine authority ...

I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.

Petty laws breed great crimes.