It’s always something to get one’s wish, even if the wish is a failure.
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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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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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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When a passion is not realized … it fades away, or becomes ideal worship–Dante–Petrarch–that sort of thing!
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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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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.
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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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an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.
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She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
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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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The Futurists?…. Well, of course, they are already past.
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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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You don’t really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
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Many 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!
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Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
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