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Margaret Oliphant Quotes

Margaret Oliphant quotes

Scottish Novelist April 4, 1828 – June 25, 1897

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It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art. Margaret Oliphant
Margaret Oliphant quote: "What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or..."
What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain? Margaret Oliphant
It was getting dark by the time I went out, and nobody who knows the country will need to be told how black is the darkness of a November night under high laurel bushes and yew-trees. I walked into the heart of the shrubberies two or three times, not seeing a step before me, till I came out upon the broader carriage-road, where the trees opened a little, and there was a faint grey glimmer of sky visible, under which the great limes and elms stood darkling like ghosts; but it grew black again... Margaret Oliphant
Margaret Oliphant quote: "Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own,..."
Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always 20 times better. Margaret Oliphant
And there has been no attempt to investigate it,' I said, 'to see what it really is?' 'Eh, Cornel,' said the coachman's wife, 'wha would investigate, as ye call it, a thing that nobody believes in? Ye would be the laughing-stock of a' the country-side, as my man says.' 'But you believe in it,' I said, turning upon her hastily. The woman was taken by surprise. She made a step backward out of my way. 'Lord, Cornel, how ye frichten a body! Me! there's awful strange things in this world. An... Margaret Oliphant
As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke. Margaret Oliphant
Margaret Oliphant quote: "For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy..."
For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it. Margaret Oliphant
Margaret Oliphant quote: "To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to..."
To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society. Margaret Oliphant
I suppose every generation has a conceit of itself which elevates it, in its own opinion, above that which comes after it. ("The Open Door") Margaret Oliphant
Margaret Oliphant quote: "Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought."
Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought. Margaret Oliphant

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