Margaret Oliphant Quotes - Page 2

• For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it.

  Margaret Oliphant

  Giving, Gentleman, Mind

  Margaret Oliphant (2015). “Delphi Works of Margaret Oliphant with Complete Stories of the Seen and Unseen”, p.2480, Delphi Classics

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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

  Art, Fate, Long

  Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant, Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) (1892). “The Heir Presumptive and the Heir Apparent”

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• Truly there is nothing in the world so blessed or so sweet as the heritage of children.

  Margaret Oliphant

  Sweet, Children, Blessed

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• What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

  Margaret Oliphant

  Happiness, Laughter, Pain

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• The incomprehensibleness of women is an old theory, but what is that to the curious wondering observation with which wives, mothers, and sisters watch the other unreasoning animal in those moments when he has snatched the reins out of their hands, and is not to be spoken to! . It is best to let him come to, and feel his own helplessness.

  Margaret Oliphant

  Mother, Animal, Hands

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• Many love me, but by none am I enough beloved.

  Margaret Oliphant

  Beloved, Enough

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• I have my own way of dividing people, as I suppose most of us have. There are those whom I can talk to, and those whom I can't.

  Margaret Oliphant

  People, Way, Dividing

  Margaret Oliphant (2002). “The Autobiography of Margaret Oliphant”, p.190, Broadview Press

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• I scarcely remember any writer who has ever ventured to say that the half of the work of the world is actually accomplished by women; and very few husbands who would be otherwise than greatly startled and amazed, if not indignant, if not derisive, at the suggestion of such an idea as that the work of their wives was equal to their own.

  Margaret Oliphant

  Husband, Work, Equality

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• There's looks as speaks as strong as words.

  Margaret Oliphant

  Strong, Looks, Speak

  Margaret Oliphant (2017). “The Perpetual Curate”, p.474, Litres

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• 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

  Travel, Home, Museums

  Margaret Oliphant (2015). “Delphi Works of Margaret Oliphant with Complete Stories of the Seen and Unseen”, p.4000, Delphi Classics

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• There is nothing more effectual in showing us the weakness of any habitual fallacy or assumption than to hear it sympathetically through the ears, as it were, of a skeptic.

  Margaret Oliphant

  Weakness, Ears, Assumption

  Margaret Oliphant (1876). “Phoebe, Junior0: A Last Chronicle of Carlingford : in Two Volumes”, p.40

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• ... I have always been a disappointment to my friends. I have no gift of talk, not much to say; and though I have always been an excellent listener, that only succeeds under auspicious circumstances.

  Margaret Oliphant

  Disappointment, Succeed, Excellent

  Margaret Oliphant (2002). “The Autobiography of Margaret Oliphant”, p.185, Broadview Press

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• A hotel is a hotel all the world over, a place essentially vulgar, commonplace, venal, the travesty of a human home.

  Margaret Oliphant

  Travel, Home, World

  Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) (1894). “A House in Bloomsbury”

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