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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Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
More Ada Leverson Quotes
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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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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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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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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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She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
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It’s always something to get one’s wish, even if the wish is a failure.
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Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
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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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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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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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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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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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Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.
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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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