It’s always something to get one’s wish, even if the wish is a failure.
ADA LEVERSONThere 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.
More Ada Leverson Quotes
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It depresses me, since naturally it gives the contrary impression. It can’t be real. It ought to be but it isn’t. If the noisy person meant what he said, he wouldn’t say it.
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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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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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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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You don’t really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
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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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A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible.
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She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
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She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
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Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
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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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Women are so perverse. Look how they won’t wear black when nothing suits them so 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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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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People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.
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