Since in a crisis they are usually dense, fatally doing the wrong thing. It is hardly too much to say that most domestic tragedies are caused by the feminine intuition of men and the want of it in women.
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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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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She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
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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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When a passion is not realized … it fades away, or becomes ideal worship–Dante–Petrarch–that sort of thing!
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The Futurists?…. Well, of course, they are already past.
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Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
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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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Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.
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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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Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
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Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
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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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You don’t really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
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Everything comes to the man who won’t wait.
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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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