You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
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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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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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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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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It’s always something to get one’s wish, even if the wish is a failure.
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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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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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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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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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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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The Futurists?…. Well, of course, they are already past.
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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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People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.
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Everything comes to the man who won’t wait.
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