Frasi di Ouida

Ouida, pseudonimo di Maria Louise Ramé o, come lei preferiva farsi chiamare Marie Louise de la Ramée , è stata una scrittrice britannica. Wikipedia  

✵ 1. Gennaio 1839 – 25. Gennaio 1908
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Ouida: Frasi in inglese

“It is the trifles of life that are its bores, after all.”

Ouida libro Under Two Flags

Origine: Under Two Flags (1867), Chapter I
Contesto: 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.

“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.”

"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)

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

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

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