Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
About Ouida
Maria Louise Rame (1 January 1839 – 25 January 1908), going by the name Marie Louise de la Ramee 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.
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To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
British novelist (1839-1908)
An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.
British novelist (1839-1908)
Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.
British novelist (1839-1908)
Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
British novelist (1839-1908)
Petty laws breed great crimes.
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A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
British novelist (1839-1908)
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.
British novelist (1839-1908)
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
British novelist (1839-1908)
Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan.
British novelist (1839-1908)