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 Read Quote
To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society. Margaret Oliphant Read Quote
For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it. Margaret Oliphant Read Quote
What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain? Margaret Oliphant Read Quote
Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one’s own, it is always twenty times better. Margaret Oliphant Read 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. Margaret Oliphant Read Quote
