It is all very well to say that children are happier with mud pies and rag dolls than with these elaborate delights.
ADA LEVERSONThe Futurists?…. Well, of course, they are already past.
More Ada Leverson Quotes
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Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.
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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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She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
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She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
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You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
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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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People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.
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It’s always something to get one’s wish, even if the wish is a failure.
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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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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.
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Suspense is torture … but delightful–or there’d be no gambling in the world.
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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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Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
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You don’t really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
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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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