Women are so perverse. Look how they won’t wear black when nothing suits them so well!
ADA LEVERSONIt is all very well to say that children are happier with mud pies and rag dolls than with these elaborate delights.
More Ada Leverson Quotes
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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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You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
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It’s always something to get one’s wish, even if the wish is a failure.
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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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When a passion is not realized … it fades away, or becomes ideal worship–Dante–Petrarch–that sort of thing!
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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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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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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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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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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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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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She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
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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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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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an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.
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