Quotes by Ouida

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Maria Louise Ramé, going by the name Marie Louise de la Ramée and known by the pseudonym Ouida, was an English novelist. Ouida wrote more than 40 novels, as well as short stories, children's books and essays. Moderately successful, she lived a life of luxury, entertaining many of the literary figures of the day.

Ouida Quotes on Beauty (1)

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

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Ouida Quotes on Death (1)

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"Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan."

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Ouida Quotes on Literature (1)

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

Literature

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Ouida Quotes on Love (1)

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

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Ouida Quotes on Truth (1)

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

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