Quotes by : Mrs. Oliphant

There is a great deal in choosing colours that go well with one's complexion. People think of that for....

Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.

Dear Mrs Chiley," said Lucilla, "it doesn't matter in the least what you wear; there are only to be gentlemen,....

He was highly spoken of, everybody knew; but nobody knew who had spoken highly of him…

It was getting dark by the time I went out, and nobody who knows the country will need to be told how....

As Sandy and his wife warmed to the tale, one tripping up another in their eagerness to tell everything,....

This was true enough, though it did not throw any light upon my perplexity. If we had heard of it to....

... Miss Marjoribanks was of the numerous class of religionists who keep up civilities with heaven, and....

The village lay in the hollow, and climbed, with very prosaic houses, the other side. Village architecture....

As she stepped into the steamboat at Dover which was to convey her to scenes so new, Lucilla felt more....