To 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.
ADA LEVERSONYou don’t really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
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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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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You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
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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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She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
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Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
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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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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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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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Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
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Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
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Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.
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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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