Suspense is torture … but delightful–or there’d be no gambling in the world.
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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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 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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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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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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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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Everything comes to the man who won’t wait.
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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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You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
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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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an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.
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Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
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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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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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You don’t really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
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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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