Top 76 Quotes About Oliphant
#1. Na, she's righted again," said a cool young fisherman, "and they've gotten down that unchancy mast. They maun have stout hearts and skeely hands that work her; but it's for life, and that learns folk baith pith and lear. There! - but it's owre now.
Mrs. Oliphant
#2. I pondered what else I should take for him. Flowers seemed wrong; they're a love token, after all. I looked in the fridge, and popped a packet of cheese slices into the bag. All men like cheese.
Gail Honeyman
#3. Terror of being found out is not always a preservative, it sometimes hurries on the act which it ought to prevent ...
Margaret Oliphant
#4. Yes, St. Claire. I like you. But I can't say it aloud, because he's my friend. And friends don't let other friends make drunken declarations and expect them to act upon them the next day
Stephanie Perkins
#5. Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.
Margaret Oliphant
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. Some days you feel like this is really going well. You can tell. Other days, you're just drawing like a farmer and you don't know why.
Pat Oliphant
#9. 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
#10. There are some people who never learn; indeed, few people learn by experience, so far as I have ever seen.
Margaret Oliphant
#11. Spring cold is like the poverty of a poor man who has had a fortune left him - better days are coming ...
Margaret Oliphant
#12. They stayed with my mum."
"That's ... weird."
"Not really. Mum is cool, easy to get along with."
I raise a teasing eyebrow. "So where did YOU guys stay?"
"Where we always stay." He stares back solemnly. "In our very separate dormitories.
Stephanie Perkins
#13. I lost my hair mixing a substance called white gunpowder on the kitchen table.
Mark Oliphant
#14. Correct me if I'm wrong - the gizmo is connected to the flingflang connected to the watzis, watzis connected to the doo-dad connected to the ding dong.
Pat Oliphant
#15. Oh, there is nobody but the rector, mamma, and he knows we girls are not such fools as we are made to look. If Paul Markham were to marry that sort of person, I should laugh. It would be our revenge - Dolly's and mine - whom he never would condescend to look at. It would be nuts to me." "Did
Mrs. Oliphant
#17. My mind wanders to the other side of the courtyard, where St. Clair waits with Josh in Q-through-Z. I wonder if I have any classes with him. I mean, them. Classes with them.
Stephanie Perkins
#19. I have always been a disappointment to my friends. I have no gift of talk, not much to say; and though I have always been an excellent listener, that only succeeds under auspicious circumstances.
Margaret Oliphant
#20. One only says it is one's duty when one has something disagreeable to do ...
Margaret Oliphant
#21. As she stepped into the steamboat at Dover which was to convey her to scenes so new, Lucilla felt more and more that she who held the reorganisation of society in Carlingford in her hands was a woman with a mission.
Mrs. Oliphant
#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
#23. One-newspaper towns are not good because all the surviving newspaper does is print money. They make 25 percent on their money every year, and if they go down to 22 percent, they start laying people off.
Pat Oliphant
#24. Imagination is the first faculty wanting in those that do harm to their kind ...
Margaret Oliphant
#25. I think reading a novel is almost next best to having something to do.
Margaret Oliphant
#26. A hotel is a hotel all the world over, a place essentially vulgar, commonplace, venal, the travesty of a human home.
Margaret Oliphant
#27. There were dragons to slay in the old days. Nixon was a good dragon.
Pat Oliphant
#28. My eye was drawn to a bright green hue, the same shade as a poisonous Amazonian frog, the tiny, delightfully deadly ones.
Gail Honeyman
#29. 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
#30. It was essential to do this job, hateful though it was, because we knew the Germans were hot on the trail.
Mark Oliphant
#31. Next to happiness, perhaps enmity is the most healthful stimulant of the human mind.
Margaret Oliphant
#32. The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended.
Margaret Oliphant
#33. I suppose every generation has a conceit of itself which elevates it, in its own opinion, above that which comes after it. ("The Open Door")
Mrs. Oliphant
#34. An outsider's point of view is always handy.
Pat Oliphant
#35. The gilded confines of the Beauty Hall were not my preferred habitat; like the chicken that had laid the eggs for my sandwich, I was more of a free-range creature.
Gail Honeyman
#36. If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have a greater readership than I have.
Pat Oliphant
#37. What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?
Margaret Oliphant
#38. So many cartoonists draw the same year after year. When they find a style, they stick with it. They don't mess with innovation, and they become boring.
Pat Oliphant
#39. Dear Mrs Chiley," said Lucilla, "it doesn't matter in the least what you wear; there are only to be gentlemen, you, know, and one never dresses for gentlemen. (...) Their vanity is something dreadful-but it is one of my principles never to dress unless there are ladies.
Mrs. Oliphant
#40. At first, I always make it a point to give in to the prejudices of society. That is how I have always been so successful. I never went in the face of anybody's prejudices. Afterwards, you know, when one is known ....
Mrs. Oliphant
#41. I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!
Pat Oliphant
#42. For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it.
Margaret Oliphant
#43. I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it.
Pat Oliphant
#44. Every generation has a conceit of itself which elevates it, in its own opinion, above that which comes after it.
Margaret Oliphant
#45. It is so seldom in this world that things come just when they are wanted ...
Margaret Oliphant
#46. I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.
Pat Oliphant
#47. 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 the bush.
Mrs. Oliphant
#48. Laughing is not the first expression of joy ... A person laughs in idleness, for fun, not for joy. Joy has nothing, nothing but the old way of tears ...
Margaret Oliphant
#49. I don't think there's more than half-a-dozen cartoons that I've been really truly happy with in all the time I've been doing it.
Pat Oliphant
#50. Where in the Bible are we told in one verse not to do a thing and in the next to do it?
'Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.' Prov. xxvi. 4.
'Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.' Prov. xxvi. 5.
Samuel Grant Oliphant
#52. I had no idea how to respond, and opted for a smile, which serves me well on most occasions (not if it's something to do with death or illness, though -- I know that now.)
Gail Honeyman
#53. The middle of life is the testing-ground of character and strength.
Margaret Oliphant
#54. ... Miss Marjoribanks was of the numerous class of religionists who keep up civilities with heaven, and pay all the proper attentions, and show their respect for the divine government in a manner befitting persons who know the value of their own approbation.
Mrs. Oliphant
#55. Whatever the reason, the fact is that there was no widespread catechetical teaching for Christian children. Things were going to change. The growing awareness of the need for Christian education was one of the chief forces behind the desire in the sixteenth century to reform the rite of baptism.
Hughes Oliphant Old
#56. Somehow even a popular fallacy has an aspect of truth when it suits one's own case.
Margaret Oliphant
#57. Married people do stand up so for each other when you say a word, however they may fight between themselves.
Margaret Oliphant
#58. To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.
Margaret Oliphant
#60. There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.
Pat Oliphant
#61. Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.
Pat Oliphant
#64. 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
#65. Even if you go to Australia today, it's very much like visiting a state you haven't been to.
Pat Oliphant
#66. Going after the unknown is always fascinating, I think. It becomes part of your life, this desire to know.
Mark Oliphant
#67. Because I was right. For the two of us, home isn't a place. It's a person
Stephanie Perkins
#68. The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to come from somewhere else to realize how valuable it is.
Pat Oliphant
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. I hate changes of administrations, because I have all my villains in place and they are all taken away and replaced with faceless wonders nobody knows.
Pat Oliphant
#72. Good works may only be beautiful sins, if they are not done in a true spirit ...
Margaret Oliphant
#73. I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.
Pat Oliphant
#74. Truly there is nothing in the world so blessed or so sweet as the heritage of children.
Margaret Oliphant
#76. I worked with him for ten years until he died and it was the most wonderful time of my life.
Mark Oliphant
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