Women are so perverse. Look how they won’t wear black when nothing suits them so well!
ADA LEVERSONWomen are so perverse. Look how they won’t wear black when nothing suits them so well!
ADA LEVERSONIt 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 LEVERSONTo 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 LEVERSONan optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.
ADA LEVERSONMost people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
ADA LEVERSONYou don’t really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
ADA LEVERSONFeminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
ADA LEVERSONEverything comes to the man who won’t wait.
ADA LEVERSONFog and hypocrisy – that is to say, shadow, convention, decency – these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance.
ADA LEVERSONThere 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.
ADA LEVERSONLooking at the poems of John Gray when I saw the tiniest rivulet of text meandering through the very largest meadow of margin,
ADA LEVERSONThou canst not serve both cod and salmon.
ADA LEVERSONShe could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
ADA LEVERSONA morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates most suffering.
ADA LEVERSONThe Futurists?…. Well, of course, they are already past.
ADA LEVERSONWhen a passion is not realized … it fades away, or becomes ideal worship–Dante–Petrarch–that sort of thing!
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