Margaret Oliphant

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

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

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.

I don't know what flirting is, really. Sometimes in women, friendliness comes across as flirting. That is not what it is.

If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.

I am and always will be a leader.