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.
ADA LEVERSONSince 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.
ADA LEVERSONIt is all very well to say that children are happier with mud pies and rag dolls than with these elaborate delights.
ADA LEVERSONModesty is a valuable merit … in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have.
ADA LEVERSONShe could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
ADA LEVERSONThe Futurists?…. Well, of course, they are already past.
ADA LEVERSONPeople were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.
ADA LEVERSONThou canst not serve both cod and salmon.
ADA LEVERSONFeminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
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 LEVERSONenvy, 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.
ADA LEVERSONSome 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.
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 LEVERSONYou don’t really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
ADA LEVERSONAll 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.
ADA LEVERSONMany 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!
ADA LEVERSONAs 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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