51 Quotes by Margaret Oliphant

Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.

He was highly spoken of, everybody knew; but nobody knew who had spoken highly of him…

I was not aware at first of the many discussions which had gone on about that window.

I suppose every generation has a conceit of itself which elevates it, in its own opinion, above that which comes after it. ("The Open Door")

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.

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.

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.