Ada Leverson Quotes

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She thought that most women make a great mistake in allowing dress to be the master instead of the servant of their good looks; many women were, she considered, entirely crushed and made insignificant by the beauty of their clothes.

Ada Leverson
Suspense is torture... but delightful--or there'd be no gambling in the world.

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Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.

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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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People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.

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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, 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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Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.

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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, 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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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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Women are so perverse. Look how they won't wear black when nothing suits them so well!

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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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'No hurry, no hurry,' said Sir James, with that air of self-denial that conveys the urgent necessity of intense speed.

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Lady Cannon's gone to a matinée at the St. James's. We had tickets for the first night, but of course she wouldn't use them then. She preferred to go alone in the afternoon, because she detests the theatre, anyhow, and afternoon performances give her a headache. If she does a thing that's disagreeable to her, she likes to do it in the most painful possible way. She has a beautiful nature.

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You don't know a woman until you have had a letter from her.

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He seemed at ease and to have the look of the last gentleman in Europe.
Of Oscar Wilde

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As a rule the person found out in a betrayal of love holds, all the same, the superior position of the two. It is the betrayed one who is humiliated.

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Like all weddings it had left the strange feeling of futility, the slight sense of depression that comes to English people who have tried, from their strong sense of tradition, to be festive and sentimental and in high spirits too early in the day. The frame of mind supposed to be appropriate to an afternoon wedding can only be genuinely experienced by an Englishman at two o'clock in the morning.

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But she could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.

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Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.

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Somehow she had thought of him so much that when she actually saw him again her affection seemed cooler. Had she worn out the passion by dint of constancy?

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He had no special hobbies, but he needed luxury in general of a kind, and especially the luxury of getting things in a hurry, his theory being that everything comes to the man who won't wait.

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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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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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