51 Quotes by Margaret Oliphant

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.

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.

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

Good works may only be beautiful sins, if they are not done in a true spirit...

Terror of being found out is not always a preservative, it sometimes hurries on the act which it ought to prevent...

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.