Women are so perverse. Look how they won’t wear black when nothing suits them so well!
ADA LEVERSONWomen are so perverse. Look how they won’t wear black when nothing suits them so well!
ADA LEVERSONMany 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!
ADA LEVERSONan optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.
ADA LEVERSONPeople were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.
ADA LEVERSONYou don’t really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
ADA LEVERSONA butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible.
ADA LEVERSONWhen a passion is not realized … it fades away, or becomes ideal worship–Dante–Petrarch–that sort of thing!
ADA LEVERSONThe Futurists?…. Well, of course, they are already past.
ADA LEVERSONMost people now seem to treasure anything they value in proportion to the extent that it’s followed about and surrounded by the vulgar public.
ADA LEVERSONWhen 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
ADA LEVERSONShe suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
ADA LEVERSONModesty is a valuable merit … in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have.
ADA LEVERSONThou canst not serve both cod and salmon.
ADA LEVERSONenvy, 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 LEVERSONMost people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
ADA LEVERSONFeminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
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