Ouida

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

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

There is a chord in every heart that has a sigh in it if touched aright.

There is no knife that cuts so sharply and with such poisoned blade as treachery.

Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

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

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

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.

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.

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

Indifference is the invisible giant of the world.

Indifference is the invincible grant of the world.

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.