Ada Leverson Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.

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.

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

Everything comes to the man who won't wait.

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

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

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!

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

Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.

Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have.

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.

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

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

A morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates most suffering.

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