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 LEVERSONI 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.
More Ada Leverson Quotes
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She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
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Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.
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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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Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
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It’s always something to get one’s wish, even if the wish is a failure.
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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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There is, of course, no joy so great as the cessation of pain; in fact all joy, active or passive, is the cessation of some pain, since it must be the satisfaction of a longing, even perhaps an unconscious longing.
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Many women I know think the ideal of happiness is to be in love with a great man, or to be the wife of a great public success; to share his triumph! They forget you share the man as well!
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You don’t really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
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The Futurists?…. Well, of course, they are already past.
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Women are so perverse. Look how they won’t wear black when nothing suits them so well!
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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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People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.
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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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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.
ADA LEVERSON






