Ouida

“A creditor is worse than a master; for a master owns only your person, a creditor owns your dignity, and can belabor that.”

“The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is a potato—the only good belonging to him is underground.”

“Coquettes are the quacks of love.”

“Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.”

“A lie that is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.”

“Hatred is a feast; and vengeance is a drunkenness.”

“A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.”

“To be at once religious and liberal is the supreme triumph of the human mind.”

“The absence of money is the root of all evil.”

“Love knows no winter.”

“The printed word is the only certainty in a world of chimeras.”

“The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.”

“Change is the salt of life.”

“The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.”

“Genius is a talent for living.”

“A human being, a woman, if you are virtuous, you don't have friends.”