A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible.
ADA LEVERSONAbsurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
More Ada Leverson Quotes
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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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To a woman–I mean, a nice woman–there is no such thing as men. There is a man; and either she is so fond of him that she can talk of nothing else, however unfavourably, or so much in love with him that she never mentions his name.
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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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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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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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You don’t really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.
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Looking at the poems of John Gray when I saw the tiniest rivulet of text meandering through the very largest meadow of margin,
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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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