It is all very well to say that children are happier with mud pies and rag dolls than with these elaborate delights.
ADA LEVERSONShe could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
More Ada Leverson Quotes
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To a woman–I mean, a nice woman–there is no such thing as men. There is a man; and either she is so fond of him that she can talk of nothing else, however unfavourably, or so much in love with him that she never mentions his name.
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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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The Futurists?…. Well, of course, they are already past.
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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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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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When a passion is not realized … it fades away, or becomes ideal worship–Dante–Petrarch–that sort of thing!
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It’s always something to get one’s wish, even if the wish is a failure.
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Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
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Everything comes to the man who won’t wait.
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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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You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
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She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
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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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You don’t really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
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