Since in a crisis they are usually dense, fatally doing the wrong thing. It is hardly too much to say that most domestic tragedies are caused by the feminine intuition of men and the want of it in women.
ADA LEVERSONYou don’t really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
More Ada Leverson Quotes
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Everything comes to the man who won’t wait.
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She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
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an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.
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She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
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A morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates most suffering.
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The Futurists?…. Well, of course, they are already past.
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Fog and hypocrisy – that is to say, shadow, convention, decency – these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance.
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When I see a cheerful young man shrieking about how full of life he is, banging on a drum, and blowing on a tin trumpet, and speaking of his good spirits
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Looking at the poems of John Gray when I saw the tiniest rivulet of text meandering through the very largest meadow of margin,
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envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition – only to his getting it.
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Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.
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The marvellous instinct with which women are usually credited seems too often to desert them on the only occasions when it would be of any real use. One would say it was there for trivialities only
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Suspense is torture … but delightful–or there’d be no gambling in the world.
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People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.
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You don’t really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
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