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
ADA LEVERSONWhen 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
More Ada Leverson Quotes
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People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.
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She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
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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.
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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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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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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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Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
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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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She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
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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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The Futurists?…. Well, of course, they are already past.
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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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Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.
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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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