51 Quotes by Margaret Oliphant

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

Spring cold is like the poverty of a poor man who has had a fortune left him - better days are coming ...

It is so seldom in this world that things come just when they are wanted ...

A hotel is a hotel all the world over, a place essentially vulgar, commonplace, venal, the travesty of a human home.

Somehow even a popular fallacy has an aspect of truth when it suits one's own case.

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.

... 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.

Many love me, but by none am I enough beloved.

there are some people who never learn; indeed, few people learn by experience, so far as I have ever seen.