Ouida Quotes

United Kingdom, Writer
January 1, 1839 – January, 25, 1908.

Ouida (; 1 January 1839 – 25 January 1908) was the pseudonym of the English novelist Maria Louise Ramé (although she preferred to be known as Marie Louise de la Ramée).

To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

Ouida
- Kind
- Always
- Innocence
Petty laws breed great crimes.

Ouida
- Great
- Laws
- Petty

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

Ouida
- Kind
- Beauty
- Cruel
Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

Ouida
- Friends
- See
- Goodbye
Brussels is a gay little city that lies as bright within its girdle of woodland as any butterfly that rests upon moss.

Ouida
- City
- Gay
- Lies
A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

Ouida
- Hand
- Story
- Run
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
- Good
- Work
- Mother
Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan.

Ouida
- Death
- Gay
- Unknown