Margaret Oliphant quotes

To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society. (Margaret Oliphant)
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. View quote
Margaret Oliphant
What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain? View quote
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. View quote
Margaret Oliphant
Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better. View quote
Margaret Oliphant
Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought. View quote
Margaret Oliphant
For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it. View quote
Margaret Oliphant

Margaret Oliphant

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Occupation: Scottish Novelist
Born: April 4, 1828
Died: June 25, 1897
Quotes count: 7