153 Quotes by Ouida

The bread of bitterness is the food on which men grow to their fullest stature; the waters of bitterness are the debatable ford through which they reach the shores of wisdom; the ashes boldly grasped and eaten without faltering are the price that must be paid for the golden fruit of knowledge.

We only see clearly when we have reached the depths of woe.

There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is half married.

Coleridge cried; "O God, how glorious it is to live!" Renan asks, "O God, when will it be worth while to live?" In Nature we echo the poet; in the world we echo the thinker.

Imagination without culture is crippled and moves slowly; but it can be pure imagination, and rich also, as folk-lore will tell the vainest.

It is quite easy for stupid people to be happy; they believe in fables, and they trot on in a beaten track like a horse on a tramway.

Fame! it is the flower of a day, that dies when the next sun rises.

What is failure except feebleness? And what is it to miss one's mark except to aim widely and weakly?

It is only to those who have never lived that death ever can seems beautiful.