When you talk yourself, you think how witty, how original, how acute you are; but when another does so, you are very apt to think only - What a crib from Rochefoucauld!
I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman. - Ouida
I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.
- Ouida
We only see clearly when we have reached the depths of woe. - Ouida
We only see clearly when we have reached the depths of woe.
There is a chord in every heart that has a sigh in it if touched aright. - Ouida
There is a chord in every heart that has a sigh in it if touched aright.
Flowers belong to Fairyland: the flowers and the birds and the butterflies are all that the world has kept of its golden age--the only perfectly beau… - Ouida
Flowers belong to Fairyland: the flowers and the birds and the butterflies are all that the world has kept of its golden age--the only perfectly beau…
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
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.
Why is youth so short and age so long? - Ouida
Why is youth so short and age so long?
A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run. - Ouida
A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
age is nothing but death that is conscious. - Ouida
age is nothing but death that is conscious.
Petty laws breed great crimes. - Ouida
Petty laws breed great crimes.
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