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.
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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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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Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.
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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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Everything comes to the man who won’t wait.
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It depresses me, since naturally it gives the contrary impression. It can’t be real. It ought to be but it isn’t. If the noisy person meant what he said, he wouldn’t say it.
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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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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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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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Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
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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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She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
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The Futurists?…. Well, of course, they are already past.
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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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