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.
ADA LEVERSONTo 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.
More Ada Leverson Quotes
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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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Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
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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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It’s always something to get one’s wish, even if the wish is a failure.
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Suspense is torture … but delightful–or there’d be no gambling in the world.
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You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
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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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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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The Futurists?…. Well, of course, they are already past.
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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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Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
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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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Women are so perverse. Look how they won’t wear black when nothing suits them so well!
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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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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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