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
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.
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.
spring men poverty
Spring cold is like the poverty of a poor man who has had a fortune left him - better days are coming ...
world timing this-world
It is so seldom in this world that things come just when they are wanted ...
travel home world
A hotel is a hotel all the world over, a place essentially vulgar, commonplace, venal, the travesty of a human home.
truth suits cases
Somehow even a popular fallacy has an aspect of truth when it suits one's own case.
people way dividing
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.
disappointment succeed excellent
... 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.
beloved enough
Many love me, but by none am I enough beloved.
people experience
there are some people who never learn; indeed, few people learn by experience, so far as I have ever seen.
strong looks speak
there's looks as speaks as strong as words ...
husband work equality
I scarcely remember any writer who has ever ventured to say that the half of the work of the world is actually accomplished by women; and very few husbands who would be otherwise than greatly startled and amazed, if not indignant, if not derisive, at the suggestion of such an idea as that the work of their wives was equal to their own.
compassion imagination firsts
imagination is the first faculty wanting in those that do harm to their kind ...
perfection melancholy
All perfection is melancholy.