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
beautiful kindness done
Good works may only be beautiful sins, if they are not done in a true spirit ...
fun expression laughing
laughing is not the first expression of joy. ... A person laughs in idleness, for fun, not for joy. Joy has nothing, nothing but the old way of tears ...
thinking two movement
Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever, and be utterly uninteresting to all the world.
art fate long
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.
running weed flower
The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended.
duty disagreeable
one only says it is one's duty when one has something disagreeable to do ...
flirty flirting men
To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.
fashion being-yourself style
Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.
night thinking two
... 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.
temptation temptation-life tempted
Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.