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
ADA LEVERSONSince 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.
More Ada Leverson Quotes
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People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.
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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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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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When a passion is not realized … it fades away, or becomes ideal worship–Dante–Petrarch–that sort of thing!
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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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Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
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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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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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She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
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The Futurists?…. Well, of course, they are already past.
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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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Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.
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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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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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