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 LEVERSONThe 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
More Ada Leverson Quotes
-
-
Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
ADA LEVERSON -
Women are so perverse. Look how they won’t wear black when nothing suits them so well!
ADA LEVERSON -
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 -
Everything comes to the man who won’t wait.
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 -
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
ADA LEVERSON -
The Futurists?…. Well, of course, they are already past.
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 suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
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 -
When a passion is not realized … it fades away, or becomes ideal worship–Dante–Petrarch–that sort of thing!
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 -
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 -
She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
ADA LEVERSON -
Suspense is torture … but delightful–or there’d be no gambling in the world.
ADA LEVERSON






