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.
ADA LEVERSONMost people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
More Ada Leverson Quotes
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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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an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.
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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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She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
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You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
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Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
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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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She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
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Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.
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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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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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Suspense is torture … but delightful–or there’d be no gambling in the world.
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Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
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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’s always something to get one’s wish, even if the wish is a failure.
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