Quotes by Margaret Oliphant about Life

2 quotes by Margaret Oliphant about life

Margaret Oliphant Scottish novelist

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 life

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...

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