She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
ADA LEVERSONI suggested to Oscar Wilde that he should go a step further than these minor poets; he should publish a book all margin; full of beautiful, unwritten thoughts.
More Ada Leverson Quotes
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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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When a passion is not realized … it fades away, or becomes ideal worship–Dante–Petrarch–that sort of thing!
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The marvellous instinct with which women are usually credited seems too often to desert them on the only occasions when it would be of any real use. One would say it was there for trivialities only
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I suggested to Oscar Wilde that he should go a step further than these minor poets; he should publish a book all margin; full of beautiful, unwritten thoughts.
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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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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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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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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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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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You don’t really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
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Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
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Women are so perverse. Look how they won’t wear black when nothing suits them so well!
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Suspense is torture … but delightful–or there’d be no gambling in the world.
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It’s always something to get one’s wish, even if the wish is a failure.
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The Futurists?…. Well, of course, they are already past.
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