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.
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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Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.
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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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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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She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
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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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Suspense is torture … but delightful–or there’d be no gambling in the world.
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Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
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She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
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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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A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible.
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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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When a passion is not realized … it fades away, or becomes ideal worship–Dante–Petrarch–that sort of thing!
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Looking at the poems of John Gray when I saw the tiniest rivulet of text meandering through the very largest meadow of margin,
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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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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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