"It has been my fate in a long……" — Margaret Oliphant
"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."
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Margaret Oliphant
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10 Quotes by Margaret Oliphant
Margaret Oliphant has 10 quotes on this site.
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To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.
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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?
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For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind…
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Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.
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Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is…
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The incomprehensibleness of women is an old theory, but what is that to the curious wondering observation with which wives,…
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As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to…
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Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.
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Imagination is the first faculty wanting in those that do harm to their kind
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More Art Quotes
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
— Aristotle
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in…
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
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I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new…
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I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your…
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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