A hotel is a hotel all the world over, a place essentially vulgar, commonplace, venal, the travesty of a human home.
Margaret OliphantThe incomprehensibleness of women is an old theory, but what is that to the curious wondering observation with which wives, mothers, and sisters watch the other unreasoning animal in those moments when he has snatched the reins out of their hands, and is not to be spoken to! . It is best to let him come to, and feel his own helplessness.
Margaret Oliphantthere are some people who never learn; indeed, few people learn by experience, so far as I have ever seen.
Margaret OliphantThe ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended.
Margaret Oliphant