Ouida Quotes

What we love once, we love forever. Shall there be joy in heaven over those who repent, yet no forgiveness for them upon earth?--"Wanda

Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look around them.

He crept up, and touched the face of the boy. "Didst thou dream that I should be faithless and forsake thee? I— a dog?" said that mute caress.

It is the north wind that lashes men into Vikings it is the soft luscious south wind which lulls them to lotus dreams.

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

A cruel story runs on wheels and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

What is it that love does to a woman? Without it she only sleeps with it alone she lives.

An easygoing husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.

Fame has only the span of the day they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth something.