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.
ADA LEVERSONAll 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.
ADA LEVERSONTo 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 LEVERSONIt’s always something to get one’s wish, even if the wish is a failure.
ADA LEVERSONWhen 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
ADA LEVERSONPeople were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.
ADA LEVERSONI 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.
ADA LEVERSONEverything comes to the man who won’t wait.
ADA LEVERSONYou don’t really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
ADA LEVERSONWhen a passion is not realized … it fades away, or becomes ideal worship–Dante–Petrarch–that sort of thing!
ADA LEVERSONShe could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
ADA LEVERSONYou don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
ADA LEVERSONLooking at the poems of John Gray when I saw the tiniest rivulet of text meandering through the very largest meadow of margin,
ADA LEVERSONModesty is a valuable merit … in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have.
ADA LEVERSONMany 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.
ADA LEVERSONA butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible.
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