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!
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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It is all very well to say that children are happier with mud pies and rag dolls than with these elaborate delights.
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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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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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A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible.
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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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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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You don’t really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
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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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Everything comes to the man who won’t wait.
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She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
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You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
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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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The Futurists?…. Well, of course, they are already past.
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Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
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People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.
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