For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it. – Margaret Oliphant
To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society. – 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. – Margaret Oliphant
What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain? – Margaret Oliphant