Suspense is torture … but delightful–or there’d be no gambling in the world.
ADA LEVERSONA morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates most suffering.
More Ada Leverson Quotes
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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 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.
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Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.
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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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Most people now seem to treasure anything they value in proportion to the extent that it’s followed about and surrounded by the vulgar public.
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Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
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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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A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible.
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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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Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
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People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.
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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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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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The Futurists?…. Well, of course, they are already past.
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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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