Margaret Oliphant
Margaret Oliphant
Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant, was a Scottish novelist and historical writer, who usually wrote as Mrs. Oliphant. Her fictional works encompass "domestic realism, the historical novel and tales of the supernatural"...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth4 April 1828
Margaret Oliphant quotes about
mother animal hands
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.
character life-is middle
The middle of life is the testing-ground of character and strength.
giving mind gentleman
For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it.
happiness pain
What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?
family years long
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 ...
generations opinion conceit
every generation has a conceit of itself which elevates it, in its own opinion, above that which comes after it.
ears weakness assumption
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.
reading thinking next
I think reading a novel is almost next best to having something to do.
shopping bargains
There is nothing so costly as bargains.
mind next enmity
Next to happiness, perhaps enmity is the most healthful stimulant of the human mind.
fighting people may
Married people do stand up so for each other when you say a word, however they may fight between themselves.
travel home museums
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.
guilt sometimes found
Terror of being found out is not always a preservative, it sometimes hurries on the act which it ought to prevent ...
cups misery bitter
Even in misery we love to be foremost, to have the bitter in our cup acknowledged as more bitter than that of others.