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.
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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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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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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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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an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.
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Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
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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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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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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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Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
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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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Suspense is torture … but delightful–or there’d be no gambling in the world.
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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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You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
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