Ouida (/ˈwiːdə/; 1 January 1839 – 25 January 1908) was the pseudonym of the English novelist Maria Louise Ramé (although she preferred to be known as Marie Louise de la Ramée). Read full biography of Ouida →
Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.
Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan.
Petty laws breed great crimes.
It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you.
To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
Ouida (/ˈwiːdə/; 1 January 1839 – 25 January 1908) was the pseudonym of the English novelist Maria Louise Ramé (although she preferred to be known as Marie Louise de la Ramée).