You don’t really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
ADA LEVERSONIt’s always something to get one’s wish, even if the wish is a failure.
More Ada Leverson Quotes
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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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The Futurists?…. Well, of course, they are already past.
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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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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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She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
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Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.
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Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
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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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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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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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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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Some men are born husbands; they have a passion for domesticity, for a fireside, for a home. Yet, curiously, these men very rarely stay at home. Apparently what they want is to have a place to get away from.
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You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
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