Fog and hypocrisy – that is to say, shadow, convention, decency – these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance.
ADA LEVERSONA butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible.
More Ada Leverson Quotes
-
-
Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.
ADA LEVERSON -
an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.
ADA LEVERSON -
It depresses me, since naturally it gives the contrary impression. It can’t be real. It ought to be but it isn’t. If the noisy person meant what he said, he wouldn’t say it.
ADA LEVERSON -
People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.
ADA LEVERSON -
Suspense is torture … but delightful–or there’d be no gambling in the world.
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 -
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 -
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 -
It is all very well to say that children are happier with mud pies and rag dolls than with these elaborate delights.
ADA LEVERSON -
Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
ADA LEVERSON -
You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
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,
ADA LEVERSON -
She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
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 -
Women are so perverse. Look how they won’t wear black when nothing suits them so well!
ADA LEVERSON






