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!
ADA LEVERSONIt 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.
More Ada Leverson Quotes
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Everything comes to the man who won’t wait.
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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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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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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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A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible.
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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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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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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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People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.
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Suspense is torture … but delightful–or there’d be no gambling in the world.
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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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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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She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
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