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 LEVERSONShe suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
More Ada Leverson Quotes
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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
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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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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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Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
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People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.
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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’s always something to get one’s wish, even if the wish is a failure.
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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 know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
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It depresses me, since naturally it gives the contrary impression. It can’t be real. It ought to be but it isn’t. If the noisy person meant what he said, he wouldn’t say it.
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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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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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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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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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