Quotes by Margaret Oliphant

Margaret Oliphant

… 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.

Disappointment

Excellent

Succeed

… up to this date, I have never been shut up in a separate room, or hedged off with any observances. My study, all the study I have attained to, is the little 2nd drawing room where all the (feminine) life of the house goes on; and I don’t think I have ever had two hours undisturbed (except at night, when everybody is in bed) during my whole literary life.

Night

Thinking

Two

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

Home

Travel

World

Against the long years when family bonds make up all that is happiest in life, there must always be reckoned those moments of agitation and revolution, during which the bosom of a family is the most unrestful and disturbing place in existence.

Family

Long

Years

All perfection is melancholy.

Melancholy

Perfection

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.

Home

Museums

Travel

Even in misery we love to be foremost, to have the bitter in our cup acknowledged as more bitter than that of others.

Bitter

Cups

Misery

every generation has a conceit of itself which elevates it, in its own opinion, above that which comes after it.

Conceit

Generations

Opinion

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

Gentleman

Giving

Mind

Good works may only be beautiful sins, if they are not done in a true spirit.

Beautiful

Done

Kindness

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Animal

Art

Assumption

Bargains

Beautiful

Being Yourself

Beloved

Bitter

Blessed

Cases

Character

Children

Compassion

Conceit

Cups

Disagreeable

Disappointment

Dividing

Done

Doubt

Duty

Ears

Enmity

Enough

Equality

Excellent

Experience

Expression

Family

Fashion

Fate

Fighting

Firsts

Flirting

Flirty

Flower

Found

Fun

Generations

Gentleman

Giving

Guilt

Hands

Happiness

Home

Husband

Imagination

Inspirational

Kindness

Laughing

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Quotes by Margaret Oliphant

Margaret Oliphant

… 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.

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

Against the long years when family bonds make up all that is happiest in life, there must always be reckoned those moments of agitation and revolution, during which the bosom of a family is the most unrestful and disturbing place in existence.

All perfection is melancholy.

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.

Even in misery we love to be foremost, to have the bitter in our cup acknowledged as more bitter than that of others.

every generation has a conceit of itself which elevates it, in its own opinion, above that which comes after it.

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

Good works may only be beautiful sins, if they are not done in a true spirit.

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