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 LEVERSONPeople were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.
More Ada Leverson Quotes
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It’s always something to get one’s wish, even if the wish is a failure.
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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 a passion is not realized … it fades away, or becomes ideal worship–Dante–Petrarch–that sort of thing!
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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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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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Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
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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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Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
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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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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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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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You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
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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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