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.
ADA LEVERSONMost people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
More Ada Leverson Quotes
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Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.
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Everything comes to the man who won’t wait.
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She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
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The Futurists?…. Well, of course, they are already past.
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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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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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Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
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Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
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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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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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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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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’s always something to get one’s wish, even if the wish is a failure.
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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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