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.
ADA LEVERSONThe Futurists?…. Well, of course, they are already past.
More Ada Leverson Quotes
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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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Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
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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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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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Fog and hypocrisy – that is to say, shadow, convention, decency – these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance.
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Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
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People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.
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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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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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She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
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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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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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Suspense is torture … but delightful–or there’d be no gambling in the world.
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The Futurists?…. Well, of course, they are already past.
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