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She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night. -- Ada Leverson
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
Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature. -- Ada Leverson
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. -- Ada Leverson
An optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet. -- Ada Leverson
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. -- Ada Leverson
Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon. -- Ada Leverson
Some men are born husbands; they have a passion for domesticity, for a fireside, for a home. Yet, curiously, these men very rarely stay at home. Apparently what they want is to have a place to get away from. -- Ada Leverson
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
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. -- Ada Leverson
Everything comes to the man who won't wait. -- Ada Leverson
It's always something to get one's wish, even if the wish is a failure. -- Ada Leverson
You don't really know a woman until she writes you a letter. -- Ada Leverson
Women are so perverse. Look how they won't wear black when nothing suits them so well! -- Ada Leverson
The Futurists? ... Well, of course, they are already past. -- Ada Leverson
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. -- Ada Leverson
Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all. -- Ada Leverson
People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed. -- Ada Leverson
Looking at the poems of John Gray when I saw the tiniest rivulet of text meandering through the very largest meadow of margin, I suggested to Oscar Wilde that he should go a step further than these minor poets; he should publish a book all margin; full of beautiful, unwritten thoughts. -- Ada Leverson
Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men. -- Ada Leverson
Fog and hypocrisy - that is to say, shadow, convention, decency - these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance. -- Ada Leverson
You don't know a woman until you have had a letter from her. -- Ada Leverson
When a passion is not realized ... it fades away, or becomes ideal worship
Dante
Petrarch
that sort of thing! -- Ada Leverson
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! -- Ada Leverson
Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have ... -- Ada Leverson
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. -- Ada Leverson
She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did. -- Ada Leverson
A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible. -- Ada Leverson
Suspense is torture ... but delightful
or there'd be no gambling in the world. -- Ada Leverson