153 Quotes by Ouida

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

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

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

The old man was silent: the truth suggested itself to him with the boy's innocent answer. He was tied to a bed of dried leaves in the corner of a wattle hut, but he had not wholly forgotten what the ways of the world were like.

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

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

For Pastrasche was their alpha and omega; their treasury and granary; their store of gold and wand of wealth; their bread-winner and minister; their only friend and comforter. ... Pastrasche was their dog.

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

Fame nowadays is little else but notoriety ...