The Futurists?…. Well, of course, they are already past.
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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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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You don’t really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
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It’s always something to get one’s wish, even if the wish is a failure.
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I suggested to Oscar Wilde that he should go a step further than these minor poets; he should publish a book all margin; full of beautiful, unwritten thoughts.
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Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.
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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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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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People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.
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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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an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.
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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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Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
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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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Suspense is torture … but delightful–or there’d be no gambling in the world.
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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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