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Top 25 Margaret Oliphant Quotes (2025 Update)

Margaret Oliphant Quote: “The middle of life is the testing-ground of character and strength.”

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

— Margaret Oliphant

Margaret Oliphant Quote: “Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one’s own, it is always 20 times better.”

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

— Margaret Oliphant

Margaret Oliphant Quote: “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.”

3. “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

Margaret Oliphant Quote: “There is nothing so costly as bargains.”

4. “There is nothing so costly as bargains.”

— Margaret Oliphant

Margaret Oliphant Quote: “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.”

5. “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

Margaret Oliphant Quote: “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...”

6. “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

Margaret Oliphant Quote: “Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.”

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

— Margaret Oliphant

Margaret Oliphant Quote: “Spring cold is like the poverty of a poor man who has had a fortune left him – better days are coming...”

8. “Spring cold is like the poverty of a poor man who has had a fortune left him – better days are coming...”

— Margaret Oliphant

Margaret Oliphant Quote: “Somehow even a popular fallacy has an aspect of truth when it suits one’s own case.”

9. “Somehow even a popular fallacy has an aspect of truth when it suits one’s own case.”

— Margaret Oliphant

Margaret Oliphant Quote: “What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?”

10. “What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?”

— Margaret Oliphant

Margaret Oliphant Quote: “All perfection is melancholy.”

11. “All perfection is melancholy.”

— Margaret Oliphant

Margaret Oliphant Quote: “Truly there is nothing in the world so blessed or so sweet as the heritage of children.”

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

— Margaret Oliphant

Margaret Oliphant Quote: “Many love me, but by none am I enough beloved.”

13. “Many love me, but by none am I enough beloved.”

— Margaret Oliphant

Margaret Oliphant Quote: “The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended.”

14. “The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended.”

— Margaret Oliphant

Margaret Oliphant Quote: “A hotel is a hotel all the world over, a place essentially vulgar, commonplace, venal, the travesty of a human home.”

15. “A hotel is a hotel all the world over, a place essentially vulgar, commonplace, venal, the travesty of a human home.”

— Margaret Oliphant

Margaret Oliphant Quote: “Married people do stand up so for each other when you say a word, however they may fight between themselves.”

16. “Married people do stand up so for each other when you say a word, however they may fight between themselves.”

— Margaret Oliphant

Margaret Oliphant Quote: “It is so seldom in this world that things come just when they are wanted...”

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

— Margaret Oliphant

Margaret Oliphant Quote: “I think reading a novel is almost next best to having something to do.”

18. “I think reading a novel is almost next best to having something to do.”

— Margaret Oliphant

Margaret Oliphant Quote: “Even in misery we love to be foremost, to have the bitter in our cup acknowledged as more bitter than that of others.”

19. “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

Margaret Oliphant Quote: “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.”

20. “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

Margaret Oliphant Quote: “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.”

21. “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.”

— Margaret Oliphant

Margaret Oliphant Quote: “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.”

22. “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.”

— Margaret Oliphant

Margaret Oliphant Quote: “Next to happiness, perhaps enmity is the most healthful stimulant of the human mind.”

23. “Next to happiness, perhaps enmity is the most healthful stimulant of the human mind.”

— Margaret Oliphant

Margaret Oliphant Quote: “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.”

24. “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

Margaret Oliphant Quote: “Good works may only be beautiful sins, if they are not done in a true spirit...”

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

— Margaret Oliphant

Margaret Oliphant Quote: “For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it.”

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

— Margaret Oliphant

Margaret Oliphant Quote: “To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.”

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

— Margaret Oliphant

Margaret Oliphant Quote: “Terror of being found out is not always a preservative, it sometimes hurries on the act which it ought to prevent...”

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

— Margaret Oliphant

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