153 Quotes by Ouida

Histories in blazonry and poems in stone.

Fame has only the span of the day, they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth something.

It is the north wind that lashes men into Vikings; it is the soft, luscious south wind which lulls them to lotus dreams.

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

Women hope that the dead love may revive; but men know that of all dead things none are so past recall as a dead passion.

Love, the one supreme, unceasing source of human felicity, the one sole joy which lifts the whole mortal existence into the empyrean, was by it [Christianity] degraded into the mere mechanical action of reproduction.

Why is youth so short and age so long?

Charity in various guises is an intruder the poor see often; but courtesy and delicacy are visitants with which they are seldom honored.

A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.