Most 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 LEVERSONWomen are so perverse. Look how they won’t wear black when nothing suits them so well!
More Ada Leverson Quotes
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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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She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
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Everything comes to the man who won’t wait.
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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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Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.
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She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
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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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When a passion is not realized … it fades away, or becomes ideal worship–Dante–Petrarch–that sort of thing!
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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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People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.
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Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
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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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You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
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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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To a woman–I mean, a nice woman–there is no such thing as men. There is a man; and either she is so fond of him that she can talk of nothing else, however unfavourably, or so much in love with him that she never mentions his name.
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