Ouida quotes

" Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey. " # Hope # Heart # Socializing and Socialism

" The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity. " # Absence # Love # Trials

" Petty laws breed great crimes. " # Law and Lawyers

" Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness. " # Familiarity # Beauty # Ugliness

" A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run. " # Gossip # Freedom # Power

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

" In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration of them. An immense agony will have then ceased, but with it there will also have passed away the last smile of the world's youth. " # Animals # Youth # Pain

" Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering; and therefore its pursuit by women is much more to be regretted than its pursuit by men, because women pursue much more violently and recklessly what they pursue at all. " # Sports # Regret # Love

" If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual moment, such a method of locomotion as cycling could never have found acceptance; no man or woman with the slightest aesthetic sense could assume the ludicrous position necessary for it. " # Bicycles # Beauty # Love