You don’t really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
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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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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The Futurists?…. Well, of course, they are already past.
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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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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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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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A morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates most suffering.
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Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
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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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She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
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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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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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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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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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When a passion is not realized … it fades away, or becomes ideal worship–Dante–Petrarch–that sort of thing!
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Suspense is torture … but delightful–or there’d be no gambling in the world.
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