Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
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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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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She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
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There is, of course, no joy so great as the cessation of pain; in fact all joy, active or passive, is the cessation of some pain, since it must be the satisfaction of a longing, even perhaps an unconscious longing.
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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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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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People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.
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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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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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Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
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You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
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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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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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