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.
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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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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She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
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Suspense is torture … but delightful–or there’d be no gambling in the world.
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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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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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Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
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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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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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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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When a passion is not realized … it fades away, or becomes ideal worship–Dante–Petrarch–that sort of thing!
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Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
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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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