Ouida Quotes

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

~ Ouida

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

~ Ouida

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

~ Ouida

An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

~ Ouida

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

~ Ouida