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.
ADA LEVERSONIt 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.
More Ada Leverson Quotes
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You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
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When a passion is not realized … it fades away, or becomes ideal worship–Dante–Petrarch–that sort of thing!
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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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Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
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It’s always something to get one’s wish, even if the wish is a failure.
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Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.
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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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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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She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
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Everything comes to the man who won’t wait.
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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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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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an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.
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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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Women are so perverse. Look how they won’t wear black when nothing suits them so well!
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