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
ADA LEVERSONSince 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.
More Ada Leverson Quotes
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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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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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She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
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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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Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
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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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Women are so perverse. Look how they won’t wear black when nothing suits them so well!
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The Futurists?…. Well, of course, they are already past.
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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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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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Fog and hypocrisy – that is to say, shadow, convention, decency – these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance.
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You don’t really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
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It’s always something to get one’s wish, even if the wish is a failure.
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Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
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Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
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