It’s always something to get one’s wish, even if the wish is a failure.
ADA LEVERSONA butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible.
More Ada Leverson Quotes
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She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
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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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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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You don’t really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
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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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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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People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.
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She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
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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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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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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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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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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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