Margaret Oliphant

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

— Margaret Oliphant

#fashion #style

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

— Margaret Oliphant

#regard #respect #respect

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

— Margaret Oliphant

#gentlemen #give #her #knows #little

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. ↗

— Margaret Oliphant

#been #chiefly #credited #excellent #fate

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

— Margaret Oliphant

#indispensable #leader #man #next #next thing

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

— Margaret Oliphant

#general #general rule #rule #sought #temptations

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

— Margaret Oliphant

#less #more #more or less #pain #purchased

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

— Margaret Oliphant

#better #fashion #mind #never #oh

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. ↗

— Margaret Oliphant

#always #beyond #going #got #home