Looking at the poems of John Gray when I saw the tiniest rivulet of text meandering through the very largest meadow of margin,
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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Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.
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Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
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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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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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She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
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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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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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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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You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
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The Futurists?…. Well, of course, they are already past.
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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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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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Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
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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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