Margaret Oliphant Quotes
Top 29 wise famous quotes and sayings by Margaret Oliphant
To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society. 
It is often easier to justify one's self to others than to respond to the secret doubts that arise in one's own bosom.
Somehow even a popular fallacy has an aspect of truth when it suits one's own case. 
There is nothing so costly as bargains.
Good works may only be beautiful sins, if they are not done in a true spirit ... 
Married people do stand up so for each other when you say a word, however they may fight between themselves.
Spring cold is like the poverty of a poor man who has had a fortune left him - better days are coming ... 
Every generation has a conceit of itself which elevates it, in its own opinion, above that which comes after it.
A hotel is a hotel all the world over, a place essentially vulgar, commonplace, venal, the travesty of a human home. 
The middle of life is the testing-ground of character and strength.
For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it. 
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.
There's looks as speaks as strong as words ... 
The eye is deceitful as well as the heart. 
Next to happiness, perhaps enmity is the most healthful stimulant of the human mind.
I think reading a novel is almost next best to having something to do. 
All perfection is melancholy. 
Terror of being found out is not always a preservative, it sometimes hurries on the act which it ought to prevent ...
What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain? 
Even in misery we love to be foremost, to have the bitter in our cup acknowledged as more bitter than that of others. 
It is so seldom in this world that things come just when they are wanted ... 
Truly there is nothing in the world so blessed or so sweet as the heritage of children.
Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better. 
One only says it is one's duty when one has something disagreeable to do ... 
The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended. 
Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.