Quotes About Ouida

A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.

A pipe is a pocket philosopher,--a truer one than Socrates, for it never asks questions. Socrates must have been very tiresome, when one thinks of it.

There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is half married.

Pearl's temper absolutely unbearable, and caused her to break her ivory hair-brush upon her maid's shoulders.

Ouida's first novel was published in three volumes in 1863, though it had previously been released in serial form as Granville de Vigne in The New Monthly magazine from January 1861 to June 1863, as was the common practice at the time. The author was only twenty-four years old at the time, but was later to claim that this was not her first attempt at writing and that her 1867 novel Idalia was written when she was just sixteen.

Ouida is not afraid to play with gender roles and her explorations of femininity in men and masculinity in women, were considered avant-garde

I think if you knew what you did, even the most thoughtless amongst you would not sanction with your praise, and encourage with your coin, the brutality that trains dancing-dogs.