Everything comes to the man who won’t wait.
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!
More Ada Leverson Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
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A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible.
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Fog and hypocrisy – that is to say, shadow, convention, decency – these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance.
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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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She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
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It’s always something to get one’s wish, even if the wish is a failure.
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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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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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Suspense is torture … but delightful–or there’d be no gambling in the world.
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It is all very well to say that children are happier with mud pies and rag dolls than with these elaborate delights.
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