Margaret Oliphant Quotes

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.

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

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.

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