You don’t really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
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.
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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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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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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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Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
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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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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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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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You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
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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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She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
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The Futurists?…. Well, of course, they are already past.
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She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
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It’s always something to get one’s wish, even if the wish is a failure.
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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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