Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
ADA LEVERSONThe 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
More Ada Leverson Quotes
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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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an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.
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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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Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
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Everything comes to the man who won’t wait.
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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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She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
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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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Women are so perverse. Look how they won’t wear black when nothing suits them so well!
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Some men are born husbands; they have a passion for domesticity, for a fireside, for a home. Yet, curiously, these men very rarely stay at home. Apparently what they want is to have a place to get away from.
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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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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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People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.
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You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
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The Futurists?…. Well, of course, they are already past.
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