You don’t really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
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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Women are so perverse. Look how they won’t wear black when nothing suits them so well!
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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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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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She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
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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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It’s always something to get one’s wish, even if the wish is a failure.
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envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition – only to his getting it.
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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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You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
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A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible.
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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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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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Suspense is torture … but delightful–or there’d be no gambling in the world.
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