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.
ADA LEVERSONMost people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
More Ada Leverson Quotes
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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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Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.
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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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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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She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
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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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Women are so perverse. Look how they won’t wear black when nothing suits them so well!
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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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It’s always something to get one’s wish, even if the wish is a failure.
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The Futurists?…. Well, of course, they are already past.
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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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Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
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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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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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Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
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