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 LEVERSONAs 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.
More Ada Leverson Quotes
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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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Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
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She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
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People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.
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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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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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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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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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The Futurists?…. Well, of course, they are already past.
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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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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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Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.
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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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an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.
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