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.
ADA LEVERSONA morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates most suffering.
More Ada Leverson Quotes
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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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You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
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It’s always something to get one’s wish, even if the wish is a failure.
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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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Everything comes to the man who won’t wait.
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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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She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
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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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Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
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There may be something in this theory, but when their amusements are carried to such a point of luxurious and imaginative perfection it certainly gives them great and even unlimited enjoyment at the time.
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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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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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Most people now seem to treasure anything they value in proportion to the extent that it’s followed about and surrounded by the vulgar public.
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Suspense is torture … but delightful–or there’d be no gambling in the world.
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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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