When a passion is not realized … it fades away, or becomes ideal worship–Dante–Petrarch–that sort of thing!
ADA LEVERSONMost people now seem to treasure anything they value in proportion to the extent that it’s followed about and surrounded by the vulgar public.
More Ada Leverson Quotes
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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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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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The Futurists?…. Well, of course, they are already past.
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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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Everything comes to the man who won’t wait.
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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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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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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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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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A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible.
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Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
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You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
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It’s always something to get one’s wish, even if the wish is a failure.
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