Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.
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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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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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.
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She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
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People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.
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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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The Futurists?…. Well, of course, they are already past.
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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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When a passion is not realized … it fades away, or becomes ideal worship–Dante–Petrarch–that sort of thing!
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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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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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You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
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Everything comes to the man who won’t wait.
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Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
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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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