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There are some people who never learn; indeed, few people learn by experience, so far as I have ever seen.
— Margaret Oliphant
It was essential to do this job, hateful though it was, because we knew the Germans were hot on the trail.
— Mark Oliphant
Many love me, but by none am I enough beloved.
— Margaret Oliphant
Even if you go to Australia today, it's very much like visiting a state you haven't been to.
— Pat Oliphant
Imagination is the first faculty wanting in those that do harm to their kind ...
— Margaret Oliphant
I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.
— Pat Oliphant
I don't think there's more than half-a-dozen cartoons that I've been really truly happy with in all the time I've been doing it.
— Pat Oliphant
I suppose every generation has a conceit of itself which elevates it, in its own opinion, above that which comes after it. ("The Open Door")
— Mrs. Oliphant
An outsider's point of view is always handy.
— Pat Oliphant
I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!
— Pat Oliphant
For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it.
— Margaret Oliphant
The middle of life is the testing-ground of character and strength.
— Margaret Oliphant
A hotel is a hotel all the world over, a place essentially vulgar, commonplace, venal, the travesty of a human home.
— Margaret Oliphant
Every generation has a conceit of itself which elevates it, in its own opinion, above that which comes after it.
— Margaret Oliphant
Spring cold is like the poverty of a poor man who has had a fortune left him - better days are coming ...
— Margaret Oliphant
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.
— Margaret Oliphant
Married people do stand up so for each other when you say a word, however they may fight between themselves.
— Margaret Oliphant
I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.
— Pat Oliphant
Good works may only be beautiful sins, if they are not done in a true spirit ...
— Margaret Oliphant
I worked with him for ten years until he died and it was the most wonderful time of my life.
— Mark Oliphant
There is nothing so costly as bargains.
— Margaret Oliphant
Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.
— Pat Oliphant
Going after the unknown is always fascinating, I think. It becomes part of your life, this desire to know.
— Mark Oliphant
Somehow even a popular fallacy has an aspect of truth when it suits one's own case.
— Margaret Oliphant
We're all idealistic when young.
— Pat Oliphant
Because I was right. For the two of us, home isn't a place. It's a person
— Stephanie Perkins
Next to happiness, perhaps enmity is the most healthful stimulant of the human mind.
— Margaret Oliphant
Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.
— Margaret Oliphant
The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended.
— Margaret Oliphant
One only says it is one's duty when one has something disagreeable to do ...
— Margaret Oliphant
Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.
— Margaret Oliphant
Truly there is nothing in the world so blessed or so sweet as the heritage of children.
— Margaret Oliphant
It is so seldom in this world that things come just when they are wanted ...
— Margaret Oliphant
Even in misery we love to be foremost, to have the bitter in our cup acknowledged as more bitter than that of others.
— Margaret Oliphant
What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?
— Margaret Oliphant
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
Terror of being found out is not always a preservative, it sometimes hurries on the act which it ought to prevent ...
— Margaret Oliphant
I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it.
— Pat Oliphant
All perfection is melancholy.
— Margaret Oliphant
I think reading a novel is almost next best to having something to do.
— Margaret Oliphant
To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.
— Margaret Oliphant
The eye is deceitful as well as the heart.
— Margaret Oliphant
My eye was drawn to a bright green hue, the same shade as a poisonous Amazonian frog, the tiny, delightfully deadly ones.
— Gail Honeyman
There's looks as speaks as strong as words ...
— Margaret Oliphant
