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.
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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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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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.
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Suspense is torture … but delightful–or there’d be no gambling in the world.
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She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
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People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.
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You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.
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Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.
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