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.
ADA LEVERSONLooking at the poems of John Gray when I saw the tiniest rivulet of text meandering through the very largest meadow of margin,
More Ada Leverson Quotes
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You don’t really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
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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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Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
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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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The Futurists?…. Well, of course, they are already past.
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She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
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Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
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She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
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Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.
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Looking at the poems of John Gray when I saw the tiniest rivulet of text meandering through the very largest meadow of margin,
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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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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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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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