Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.
ADA LEVERSONMost people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
More Ada Leverson Quotes
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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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Everything comes to the man who won’t wait.
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Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
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You don’t really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
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She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
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Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
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I suggested to Oscar Wilde that he should go a step further than these minor poets; he should publish a book all margin; full of beautiful, unwritten thoughts.
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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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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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To a woman–I mean, a nice woman–there is no such thing as men. There is a man; and either she is so fond of him that she can talk of nothing else, however unfavourably, or so much in love with him that she never mentions his name.
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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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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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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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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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Suspense is torture … but delightful–or there’d be no gambling in the world.
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