Melancholy Quote by Margaret Oliphant Download Open image “All perfection is melancholy.” — Margaret Oliphant ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Melancholy Perfection Sad
...that fitful strain of melancholy which will ever be found inseperable from the perfection of the beautiful. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
There is a melancholy which accompanies all enthusiasm. — Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
Our sadness won’t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we see before… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain? — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
I think reading a novel is almost next best to having something to do. — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
Married people do stand up so for each other when you say a word, however they may fight between themselves. — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
“Don’t you think a certain amount of civilisation is necessary before picture-frames will become remunerative? I don’t think you could live by them in… — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
there are some people who never learn; indeed, few people learn by experience, so far as I have ever seen. — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
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… — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
“The village lay in the hollow, and climbed, with very prosaic houses, the other side. Village architecture does not flourish in Scotland. The blue… — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
Next to happiness, perhaps enmity is the most healthful stimulant of the human mind. — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
“And there has been no attempt to investigate it,' I said, 'to see what it really is?' 'Eh, Cornel,' said the coachman's wife, 'wha… — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society. — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it. — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended. — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
“As ofttimes as it rains on my little spot of earth, you'd think I'd grow accustomed to the gloom.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Wish in one hand, shit in the other, see which one fills up faster.” — Noelle Oxenhandler Copy Share Image
You felt a deep sorrow, the kind of melancholy you feel when you're in a beautiful place and the sun is going down — Thrity Umrigar Copy Share Image
In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy. — Daniel Boone Copy Share Image
There was only the broad square with the scattered dim moons of the street lamps and with the monumental stone arch which receded into… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
For me, the melancholy of the late XXth Century is walking late at night by the Mont Blanc pen store and seeing these things… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“This night is not calm; the equinox still struggles in its storms. The wild rains of the day are abated; the great single cloud… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Books are never out of humour; never envious or jealous, they answer all questions with readiness; ... they teach us how to live and… — Holbrook Jackson Copy Share Image
Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man, imprisonedin mortal… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
