She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
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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Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
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You don’t really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
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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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The Futurists?…. Well, of course, they are already past.
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People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.
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She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
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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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Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.
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Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
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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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Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
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It’s always something to get one’s wish, even if the wish is a failure.
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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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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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When a passion is not realized … it fades away, or becomes ideal worship–Dante–Petrarch–that sort of thing!
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