What did Ouida mean by: Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look round them. - Ouida Author Copy
+ There is no knife that cuts so sharply and with such poisoned blade as treachery. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Ouida, Blades, Knives, 0 - Ouida Author
+ Honor is an old-world thing; but it smells sweet to those in whose hand it is strong. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Ouida, Hands, Strong, Sweet, 0 - Ouida Author
+ Charity is a flower not naturally of earthly growth, and it needs manuring with a promise of profit. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Ouida, Flower, Growth, Promise, 0 - Ouida Author
+ Woman’s fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension. –“Wanda Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Ouida, Desire, Weakness, 0 - Ouida Author
+ The scorn of genius is the most arrogant and the most boundless of all scorn. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Ouida, Arrogance, Genius, Scorn, 0 - Ouida Author
+ It is only to those who have never lived that death ever can seems beautiful. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Ouida, Beautiful, Death, 0 - Ouida Author
+ There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is half married. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Ouida, Beauty, Self, 0 - Ouida Author
+ Dishonor is like the Aaron’s Beard in the hedgerows; it can only poison if it be plucked. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Ouida, Beard, Poison, 0 - Ouida Author
Posterity–the forlorn child of nineteenth century optimism–grows ever harder to conceive. - Mason Cooley Professor · USA
Happiness is the twin sister of optimism and the twin brother of contentment. - Mehmet Murat Ildan Playwright and novelist · Turkey
I’m a pessimist about probabilities, I’m an optimist about possibilities. - Lewis Mumford Historian · USA
Children are born optimists and we slowly educate them out of their heresy - Louise Imogen Guiney Poet · USA
As idiotic as optimism can sometimes seem, it has a weird habit of paying off. - Michael Lewis Author · USA
Regardless of who wins, an election should be a time for optimism and fresh approaches. - Gary Johnson Politician
