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.
Quote by Margaret Oliphant about joke, home, things
Quotes by Margaret Oliphant
8 quotes by Margaret Oliphant
Margaret Oliphant - scottish novelist
Life period: 1828 - 1897
For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it.
Quote by Margaret Oliphant about woman, mind
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.
Quote by Margaret Oliphant about destiny, quality, virtue, art, magic, life
Oh, never mind the fashion, when one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.
Quote by Margaret Oliphant about mind, fashion, style
Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement, and it is better to be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever, and be...
Quote by Margaret Oliphant about thinking, nothing, things, world, life
To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.
Quote by Margaret Oliphant about man, society, things
What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain.
Quote by Margaret Oliphant about happiness, pain
