153 Quotes by Ouida

Friendship is such an elastic word. There never was an age when it stood for so many things in private, and was yet so absolutely non-existent in fact.

The philosopher stands at his desk in the lecture hall, and demonstrates away the soul of man, and with exact thought measures out his atoms and resolves him back to gas and air. But the revolutionary, below in the crowd, hears, and only translates what he hears thus to his brethren: 'Let us drink while we may; property is robbery; this life is all; let us kill and eat; there is no God.

We do not want to think. We do not want to hear. We do not care about anything. Only give us a good dinner and plenty of money, and let us outshine our neighbors. There is the Nineteenth Century Gospel.

Honor is an old-world thing; but it smells sweet to those in whose hand it is strong.

Opposition to a man in love is like oil to fire.

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

I have known men who have been sold and bought a hundred times, who have only got very fat and very comfortable in the process of exchange.

Woman already controls by not seeming to do so. Talk no more of her rights.

Count art by gold, and it fetters the feet it once winged.