Spring cold is like the poverty of a poor man who has had a fortune left him - better days are coming. Margaret Oliphant More Quotes by Margaret Oliphant More Quotes From Margaret Oliphant Next to happiness, perhaps enmity is the most healthful stimulant of the human mind. Margaret Oliphant enmity next mind Married people do stand up so for each other when you say a word, however they may fight between themselves. Margaret Oliphant fighting may people 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. Margaret Oliphant mother animal hands 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. Margaret Oliphant family long years Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever, and be utterly uninteresting to all the world. Margaret Oliphant movement two thinking 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 fate long art Even in misery we love to be foremost, to have the bitter in our cup acknowledged as more bitter than that of others. Margaret Oliphant bitter misery cups 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 home museums travel 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. Margaret Oliphant equality husband work Terror of being found out is not always a preservative, it sometimes hurries on the act which it ought to prevent. Margaret Oliphant guilt found sometimes What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain? Margaret Oliphant laughter pain happiness For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it. Margaret Oliphant gentleman mind giving ... 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. Margaret Oliphant succeed excellent disappointment There is nothing more effectual in showing us the weakness of any habitual fallacy or assumption than to hear it sympathetically through the ears, as it were, of a skeptic. Margaret Oliphant assumption weakness ears Truly there is nothing in the world so blessed or so sweet as the heritage of children. Margaret Oliphant blessed sweet children A hotel is a hotel all the world over, a place essentially vulgar, commonplace, venal, the travesty of a human home. Margaret Oliphant home world travel every generation has a conceit of itself which elevates it, in its own opinion, above that which comes after it. Margaret Oliphant conceit generations opinion
