153 Quotes by Ouida

The heart of silver falls ever into the hands of brass. The sensitive herb is eaten as grass by the swine.

Charity is a flower not naturally of earthly growth, and it needs manuring with a promise of profit.

Flowers belong to Fairyland: the flowers and the birds and the butterflies are all that the world has kept of its golden age--the only perfectly beautiful things on earth--joyous, innocent, half divine--useless, say they who are wiser than God.

Youth without faith is a day without sun.

When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time.

The song that we hear with our ears is only the song that is sung in our hearts.

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.

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.

Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension. --"Wanda