Ouida Quotes
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![Petty laws breed great crimes. - Ouida quote.](/img/q/97/8497A-petty-laws-breed-great-crimes-ouida.png)
Petty laws breed great crimes.
![Indifference is the invincible giant of the world. - Ouida quote.](/img/q/43/33543A-indifference-is-the-invincible-giant-of-world-ouida.png)
Indifference is the invincible giant of the world.
![It takes a great nature to bear the weight of a great gratitude. - Ouida quote.](/img/q/85/32185A-it-takes-a-great-nature-to-bear-weight-great-gratitude-ouida.png)
It takes a great nature to bear the weight of a great gratitude.
![Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey. - Ouida quote.](/img/q/29/32929A-take-hope-from-the-heart-of-man-you-make-him-ouida.png)
Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.
![Fame! It is the flower of a day, that dies when the next sun rises. - Ouida quote.](/img/q/04/30804A-fame-it-is-the-flower-of-day-that-dies-when-ouida.png)
Fame! It is the flower of a day, that dies when the next sun rises.
![To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery. - Ouida quote.](/img/q/34/33634A-to-vice-innocence-must-always-seem-only-superior-kind-chicanery-ouida.png)
To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
![Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty, but kind to ugliness. - Ouida quote.](/img/q/26/30826A-familiarity-is-a-magician-that-is-cruel-beauty-but-kind-ouida.png)
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty, but kind to ugliness.
![Petty laws breed great crimes. Few rulers, big or little, remember that. - Ouida quote.](/img/q/27/34427A-petty-laws-breed-great-crimes-few-rulers-big-or-little-ouida.png)
Petty laws breed great crimes. Few rulers, big or little, remember that.
![A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run. - Ouida quote.](/img/q/56/28956A-a-cruel-story-runs-on-wheels-every-hand-oils-wheels-ouida.png)
A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
![There is no applause that so flatters a man as that which he wrings from unwilling throats. - Ouida quote.](/img/q/62/26262A-there-is-no-applause-that-so-flatters-man-as-that-ouida.png)
There is no applause that so flatters a man as that which he wrings from unwilling throats.
![The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity. - Ouida quote.](/img/q/41/25041A-the-longest-absence-is-less-perilous-love-than-terrible-trials-ouida.png)
The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
![Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter, terrier, that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms. - Ouida quote.](/img/q/37/41337A-truth-is-a-rough-honest-helter-skelter-terrier-that-none-ouida.png)
Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter, terrier, that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.
![Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends good-bye. - Ouida quote.](/img/q/11/13111A-could-we-see-when-and-where-we-are-meet-again-ouida.png)
Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends good-bye.
![It is a kind of blindness—poverty. We can only grope through life when we are poor, hitting and maiming ourselves against every angle. - Ouida quote.](/img/q/07/37907A-it-is-a-kind-of-blindness-poverty-we-can-only-ouida.png)
It is a kind of blindness—poverty. We can only grope through life when we are poor, hitting and maiming ourselves against every angle.
![Power is sweet, and when you are a little clerk you love its sweetness quite as much as if you were an emperor, and maybe you love it a good deal more. - Ouida quote.](/img/q/50/37950A-power-is-sweet-and-when-you-are-little-clerk-you-ouida.png)
Power is sweet, and when you are a little clerk you love its sweetness quite as much as if you were an emperor, and maybe you love it a good deal more.
![Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. That is in itself a great force: they do not waste their energies in considering the good of others. - Ouida quote.](/img/q/62/39562A-intensely-selfish-people-are-always-very-decided-as-what-they-ouida.png)
Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. That is in itself a great force: they do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.
![There is a chord in every human heart than has a sigh in it if touched aright. When the artist finds the keynote, which that chord will answer to, in the dullest as in the highest—then he is great. - Ouida quote.](/img/q/69/26569A-there-is-a-chord-in-every-human-heart-than-has-ouida.png)
There is a chord in every human heart than has a sigh in it if touched aright. When the artist finds the keynote, which that chord will answer to, in the dullest as in the highest—then he is great.
There is a chord in every human heart than has a sigh in it if touched aright.