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 LEVERSONLooking at the poems of John Gray when I saw the tiniest rivulet of text meandering through the very largest meadow of margin,
More Ada Leverson Quotes
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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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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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The Futurists?…. Well, of course, they are already past.
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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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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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She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
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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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Women are so perverse. Look how they won’t wear black when nothing suits them so well!
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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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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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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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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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Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.
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