Everything comes to the man who won’t wait.
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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Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
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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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A morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates most suffering.
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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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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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The Futurists?…. Well, of course, they are already past.
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People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.
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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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There may be something in this theory, but when their amusements are carried to such a point of luxurious and imaginative perfection it certainly gives them great and even unlimited enjoyment at the time.
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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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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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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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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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