Ouida

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

— Ouida

#bid #could #friends #goodbye #meet

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

— Ouida

#cruel #familiarity #kind #magician #ugliness

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

— Ouida

#heart #him #hope #make #man

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

— Ouida

#easy-going #husband #indispensable #life

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

— Ouida

#christianity #death #gay #made #pagan

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. ↗

— Ouida

#good #hard #hard work #hungry #kiss

Petty laws breed great crimes. ↗

— Ouida

#crimes #great #laws #petty