Margaret Oliphant Quotes

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

Margaret Oliphant

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Margaret Oliphant

Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant (born Margaret Oliphant Wilson; 4 April 1828 – 20 June 1897) was a Scottish novelist and historical writer, who usually wrote as Mrs. Oliphant. Her fictional works cover "domestic realism, the historical novel and tales of the supernatural".

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Margaret Oliphant

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

imagination kind harm wanting
Margaret Oliphant

Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always 20 times better.

be-yourself fashion
Margaret Oliphant

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.

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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.

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Margaret Oliphant

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

man society
Margaret Oliphant

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

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Margaret Oliphant

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

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Margaret Oliphant

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

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