Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
ADA LEVERSONShe could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
More Ada Leverson Quotes
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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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Women are so perverse. Look how they won’t wear black when nothing suits them so well!
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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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Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.
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You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
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You don’t really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
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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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Everything comes to the man who won’t wait.
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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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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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People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.
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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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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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When 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
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The Futurists?…. Well, of course, they are already past.
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