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
ADA LEVERSONShe suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
More Ada Leverson Quotes
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The Futurists?…. Well, of course, they are already past.
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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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You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
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Everything comes to the man who won’t wait.
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She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
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Many 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!
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People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.
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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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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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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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When a passion is not realized … it fades away, or becomes ideal worship–Dante–Petrarch–that sort of thing!
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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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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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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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