an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.
ADA LEVERSONTo 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.
More Ada Leverson Quotes
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She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
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All really frank people are amusing, and would remain so if they could remember that other people may sometimes want to be frank and amusing too.
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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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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 suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
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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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A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible.
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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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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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Women are so perverse. Look how they won’t wear black when nothing suits them so well!
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Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
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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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You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
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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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