You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
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.
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The marvellous instinct with which women are usually credited seems too often to desert them on the only occasions when it would be of any real use. One would say it was there for trivialities only
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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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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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Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.
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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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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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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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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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People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.
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You don’t really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
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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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Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
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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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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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Everything comes to the man who won’t wait.
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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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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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She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
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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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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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Women are so perverse. Look how they won’t wear black when nothing suits them so well!
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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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Suspense is torture … but delightful–or there’d be no gambling in the world.
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Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
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She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
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