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

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

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

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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 a passion is not realized ... it fades away, or becomes ideal worship--Dante--Petrarch--that sort of thing!

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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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The Futurists?.... Well, of course, they are already past.

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

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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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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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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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