Margaret Oliphant Quotes

"To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society."
- Margaret Oliphant
(Related: Society, Leader, Man)

"What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?"
- Margaret Oliphant
(Related: Happiness, Pain)

"For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it."
- Margaret Oliphant
(Related: Gentlemen, Mind, Will, Woman)

"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."
- Margaret Oliphant
(Related: Home, Museums, Trouble)

"Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better."
- Margaret Oliphant
(Related: Fashion, Mind, Style)

"Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought."
- Margaret Oliphant
(Related: Temptations)