an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.
ADA LEVERSONFeminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
More Ada Leverson Quotes
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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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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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The Futurists?…. Well, of course, they are already past.
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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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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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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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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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Everything comes to the man who won’t wait.
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She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
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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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Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
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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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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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Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
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Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.
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