You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
ADA LEVERSONSuspense is torture … but delightful–or there’d be no gambling in the world.
More Ada Leverson Quotes
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Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
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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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When a passion is not realized … it fades away, or becomes ideal worship–Dante–Petrarch–that sort of thing!
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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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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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Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
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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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Women are so perverse. Look how they won’t wear black when nothing suits them so well!
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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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Everything comes to the man who won’t wait.
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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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an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.
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You don’t really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
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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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It’s always something to get one’s wish, even if the wish is a failure.
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