There 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 LEVERSONWhen 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
More Ada Leverson Quotes
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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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envy, 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.
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Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
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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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It’s always something to get one’s wish, even if the wish is a failure.
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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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The Futurists?…. Well, of course, they are already past.
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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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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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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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She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
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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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Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
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She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
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