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.
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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You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
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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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She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
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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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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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Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
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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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Women are so perverse. Look how they won’t wear black when nothing suits them so well!
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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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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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Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
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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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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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She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
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Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
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