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.
ADA LEVERSONSuspense is torture … but delightful–or there’d be no gambling in the world.
More Ada Leverson Quotes
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Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
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The Futurists?…. Well, of course, they are already past.
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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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When a passion is not realized … it fades away, or becomes ideal worship–Dante–Petrarch–that sort of thing!
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Suspense is torture … but delightful–or there’d be no gambling in the world.
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It’s always something to get one’s wish, even if the wish is a failure.
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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.
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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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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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She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
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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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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 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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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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Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
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