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.
ADA LEVERSONSuspense is torture … but delightful–or there’d be no gambling in the world.
More Ada Leverson Quotes
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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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You don’t really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
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Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.
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She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
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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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A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible.
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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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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 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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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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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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Suspense is torture … but delightful–or there’d be no gambling in the world.
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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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Some men are born husbands; they have a passion for domesticity, for a fireside, for a home. Yet, curiously, these men very rarely stay at home. Apparently what they want is to have a place to get away from.
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