Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all. — Ada Leverson Attention Copy Share Image
It's always something to get one's wish, even if the wish is a failure. — Ada Leverson Failure Copy Share Image
Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men. — Ada Leverson Feminine Copy Share Image
She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did. — Ada Leverson Carry Copy Share Image
Women are so perverse. Look how they won't wear black when nothing suits them so well! — Ada Leverson Black Copy Share Image
envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition -… — Ada Leverson Deserving Copy Share Image
Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those… — Ada Leverson Appearance 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… — Ada Leverson People 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.… — Ada Leverson Betrayal Copy Share Image
People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed. — Ada Leverson Charm Copy Share Image
an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet. — Ada Leverson Eye 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… — Ada Leverson Causes Copy Share Image
Before he left, Aunt William pressed a sovereign into his hand guiltily, as if it were conscience money. He, on his side,… — Ada Leverson Money Copy Share Image
Looking at the poems of John Gray when I saw the tiniest rivulet of text meandering through the very largest meadow of… — Ada Leverson Beautiful 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… — Ada Leverson Born Copy Share Image
The marvellous instinct with which women are usually credited seems too often to desert them on the only occasions when it would… — Ada Leverson Crisis Copy Share Image
When a passion is not realized ... it fades away, or becomes ideal worship--Dante--Petrarch--that sort of thing! — Ada Leverson Dante Copy Share Image
A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible. — Ada Leverson Archbishop Copy Share Image
Suspense is torture ... but delightful--or there'd be no gambling in the world. — Ada Leverson Delightful Copy Share Image
You don't really know a woman until she writes you a letter. — Ada Leverson Inspirational Copy Share Image
She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night. — Ada Leverson Betrayal Copy Share Image
All really frank people are amusing, and would remain so if they could remember that other people may sometimes want to be… — Ada Leverson Amusing Copy Share Image
Fog and hypocrisy - that is to say, shadow, convention, decency - these were the very things that lent to London its… — Ada Leverson Conventions Copy Share Image
Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature. — Ada Leverson Books Copy Share Image
There is, of course, no joy so great as the cessation of pain; in fact all joy, active or passive, is the… — Ada Leverson Active Copy Share Image
It is all very well to say that children are happier with mud pies and rag dolls than with these elaborate delights.… — Ada Leverson Amusement Copy Share Image
Many women I know think the ideal of happiness is to be in love with a great man, or to be the… — Ada Leverson Forget Copy Share Image
To a woman--I mean, a nice woman--there is no such thing as men. There is a man; and either she is so… — Ada Leverson Love 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… — Ada Leverson Banging Copy Share Image
