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… — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
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. — 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
