It’s always something to get one’s wish, even if the wish is a failure.
ADA LEVERSONenvy, 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.
More Ada Leverson Quotes
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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.
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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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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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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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You don’t really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
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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 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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People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.
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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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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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You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
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The Futurists?…. Well, of course, they are already past.
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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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A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible.
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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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