She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
ADA LEVERSONSuspense is torture … but delightful–or there’d be no gambling in the world.
More Ada Leverson Quotes
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Some men are born husbands; they have a passion for domesticity, for a fireside, for a home. Yet, curiously, these men very rarely stay at home. Apparently what they want is to have a place to get away from.
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Modesty is a valuable merit … in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have.
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You don’t really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
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As a rule the person found out in a betrayal of love holds, all the same, the superior position of the two. It is the betrayed one who is humiliated.
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Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
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Everything comes to the man who won’t wait.
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Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.
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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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Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
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The Futurists?…. Well, of course, they are already past.
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Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
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It is all very well to say that children are happier with mud pies and rag dolls than with these elaborate delights.
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When a passion is not realized … it fades away, or becomes ideal worship–Dante–Petrarch–that sort of thing!
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A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible.
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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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