Fog and hypocrisy – that is to say, shadow, convention, decency – these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance.
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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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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The Futurists?…. Well, of course, they are already past.
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You don’t really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
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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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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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You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
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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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Suspense is torture … but delightful–or there’d be no gambling in the world.
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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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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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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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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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an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.
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People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.
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