Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look around them.
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Ouida
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A Dog of Flanders
Wanda, Countess von Szalras.
Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida
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What we love once, we love forever. Shall there be joy in heaven over those who repent, yet no forgiveness for them upon earth?--"Wanda
One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.--"Wanda
The world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace.
I only care for the subjective life; I am very German, you see: The woods interest me, and the world does not.
Is there a more pitiable spectacle than that of a wife contending with others for that charm in her husband's sight which no philters and no prayers can renew when once it has fled forever?Women are so unwise. Love is like a bird's song beautiful and eloquent when heard in forest freedom, harsh and worthless in repetition when sung from behind prison bars.You cannot secure love by vigilance, by environment, by captivity. What use is it to keep the person of a man beside you if his soul be truant from you?
He mistook, as the cleverest men often do mistake, in underrating the cruelty of women.
I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.
Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension.--"Wanda
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
There are wrongs for which religion makes no provision, and of which it has no comprehension.--"Wanda
Fame has only the span of the day they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth something.
Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.
An easygoing husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.
What is it that love does to a woman? Without it she only sleeps with it alone she lives.
A cruel story runs on wheels and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
Truth is a rough honest helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.
It is the north wind that lashes men into Vikings it is the soft luscious south wind which lulls them to lotus dreams.