A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
Quote by Ouida about history
Quotes by Ouida
9 quotes by Ouida
Ouida - english novelist
Life period: 1839 - 1908
An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.
Quote by Ouida about opinion, husband, life
Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan.
Quote by Ouida about faith, fear, death
Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
Quote by Ouida about friendship
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
Quote by Ouida about family, ugliness, beauty
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.
Quote by Ouida about work, kiss, mother, good, good luck
Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.
Quote by Ouida about man, hope, heart
To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
Quote by Ouida about innocence, vice
