Ada Leverson Quotes, Nice Quotes, Mean Quotes

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

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

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Everything comes to the man who won't wait.

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

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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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A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible.

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

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

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

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