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.
ADA LEVERSONSuspense is torture … but delightful–or there’d be no gambling in the world.
More Ada Leverson Quotes
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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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People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.
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Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.
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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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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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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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She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
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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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A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible.
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You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
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She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
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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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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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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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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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When a passion is not realized … it fades away, or becomes ideal worship–Dante–Petrarch–that sort of thing!
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The Futurists?…. Well, of course, they are already past.
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It’s always something to get one’s wish, even if the wish is a failure.
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Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
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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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Women are so perverse. Look how they won’t wear black when nothing suits them so well!
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Everything comes to the man who won’t wait.
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You don’t really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
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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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Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
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