Everything comes to the man who won’t wait.
ADA LEVERSONYou don’t really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
More Ada Leverson Quotes
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A morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates most suffering.
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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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You don’t really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
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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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It’s always something to get one’s wish, even if the wish is a failure.
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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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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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Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
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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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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 a passion is not realized … it fades away, or becomes ideal worship–Dante–Petrarch–that sort of thing!
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Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
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The Futurists?…. Well, of course, they are already past.
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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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