Ouida Quotes

Source: Under Two Flags (1867), Chapter I
Context: It is the trifles of life that are its bores, after all. Most men can meet ruin calmly, for instance, or laugh when they lie in a ditch with their own knee-joint and their hunter's spine broken over the double post and rails: it is the mud that has choked up your horn just when you wanted to rally the pack; it's the whip who carries you off to a division just when you've sat down to your turbot; it's the ten seconds by which you miss the train; it's the dust that gets in your eyes as you go down to Epsom; it's the pretty little rose note that went by accident to your house instead of your club, and raised a storm from madame; it's the dog that always will run wild into the birds; it's the cook who always will season the white soup wrong—it is these that are the bores of life, and that try the temper of your philosophy.

Source: Two Little Wooden Shoes (1874), Chapter I

"Has Christianity Failed?" http://books.google.com/books?id=C1cCAAAAIAAJ&q="even+of+death+Christianity+has+made+a+terror+which+was+unknown+to+the+gay+calmness+of+the+Pagan+and+the+stoical+repose+of+the+Indian"&pg=PA215#v=onepage, in the The North American Review (February 1891)

Source: Two Little Wooden Shoes (1874), Chapter II

A Village Commune http://books.google.com/books?id=4rksAAAAYAAJ&amp;q=%22take+hope+from+the+heart+of+man+and+you+make+him+a+beast+of+prey%22&amp;pg=PA206#v=onepage (1881) <br class="br">Cited in: Pratiyogita Darpan https://books.google.nl/books?id=trBMVnMmk6oC&amp;pg=PT47&amp;lpg=PT47&amp;dq=%22Take+hope+from+the+heart+of+man+and+you+make+him+a+beast+of+prey%22&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=CrxbsmwOru&amp;sig=5n_dKLOkkZs7IlJucIBMAy2gG_Y&amp;hl=nl&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwiIyumfwJ_LAhWDNpoKHRGjBxoQ6AEIWjAH#v=onepage&amp;q=%22Take%20hope%20from%20the%20heart%20of%20man%20and%20you%20make%20him%20a%20beast%20of%20prey%22&amp;f=false, February 2009