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.
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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She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
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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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You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
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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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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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Suspense is torture … but delightful–or there’d be no gambling in the world.
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Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
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A morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates most suffering.
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Everything comes to the man who won’t wait.
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The marvellous instinct with which women are usually credited seems too often to desert them on the only occasions when it would be of any real use. One would say it was there for trivialities only
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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
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You don’t really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
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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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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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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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