Ada Leverson Quotes, Wish Quotes

It's always something to get one's wish, even if the wish is a failure.

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

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You don't really know a woman until she writes you a letter.

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Fog and hypocrisy - that is to say, shadow, convention, decency - these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance.

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Everything comes to the man who won't wait.

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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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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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She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition - only to his getting it.

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

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

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

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