It is all very well to say that children are happier with mud pies and rag dolls than with these elaborate delights. There may be something in this theory, but when their amusements are carried to such a point of… — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
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… — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
Some men are born husbands; they have a passion for domesticity, for a fireside, for a home. Yet, curiously, these men very rarely stay… — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
As a rule the person found out in a betrayal of love holds, all the same, the superior position of the two. It is… — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed. — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
When a passion is not realized ... it fades away, or becomes ideal worship--Dante--Petrarch--that sort of thing! — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
A morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates most suffering. — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible. — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition - only to… — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all. — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
