When a passion is not realized … it fades away, or becomes ideal worship–Dante–Petrarch–that sort of thing!
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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Everything comes to the man who won’t wait.
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You don’t really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
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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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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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Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
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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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The Futurists?…. Well, of course, they are already past.
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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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She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
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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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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.
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You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
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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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an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.
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Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.
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