I have known men who have been sold and bought a hundred times, who have only got very fat and very comfortable in the process of exchange.
OuidaCould we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
OuidaFriendship is usually treated...as a tough...thing which will survive all manner of bad treatment. But this is an exceedingly great and foolish error; it may die in an hour of a single unwise word.
OuidaNature I believe in. True art aims to, represent men and women, not as my little self would have them, but as they appear. My heroes and heroines I want not extreme types, all good or all bad; but human, mortal--partly good, partly bad. Realism I need. Pure mental abstractions have no significance for me.
Ouida