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 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.
More Ada Leverson Quotes
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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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Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
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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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She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
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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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She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
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Suspense is torture … but delightful–or there’d be no gambling in the world.
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There is, of course, no joy so great as the cessation of pain; in fact all joy, active or passive, is the cessation of some pain, since it must be the satisfaction of a longing, even perhaps an unconscious longing.
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You don’t really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
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Everything comes to the man who won’t wait.
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It’s always something to get one’s wish, even if the wish is a failure.
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Modesty is a valuable merit … in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have.
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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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Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
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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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