Quotes by : Ouida

To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

An easygoing husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.

A cruel story runs on wheels and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies....

He mistook, as the cleverest men often do mistake, in underrating the cruelty of women.

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

In the violent scorn of her revolted pride, of her indignant honor, had she forgotten a lowlier yet harder....

The world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace.