51 Quotes by Margaret Oliphant

there's looks as speaks as strong as words ...

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.

imagination is the first faculty wanting in those that do harm to their kind ...

All perfection is melancholy.

It is often easier to justify one's self to others than to respond to the secret doubts that arise in one's own bosom.

Truly there is nothing in the world so blessed or so sweet as the heritage of children.

The incomprehensibleness of women is an old theory, but what is that to the curious wondering observation with which wives, mothers, and sisters watch the other unreasoning animal in those moments when he has snatched the reins out of their hands, and is not to be spoken to! . It is best to let him come to, and feel his own helplessness.

The middle of life is the testing-ground of character and strength.

Against the long years when family bonds make up all that is happiest in life, there must always be reckoned those moments of agitation and revolution, during which the bosom of a family is the most unrestful and disturbing place in existence ...