Modesty is a valuable merit … in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have.
ADA LEVERSONModesty is a valuable merit … in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have.
More Ada Leverson Quotes
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People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.
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Suspense is torture … but delightful–or there’d be no gambling in the world.
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She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
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Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
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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.
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You don’t really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
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It’s always something to get one’s wish, even if the wish is a failure.
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Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
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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.
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The Futurists?…. Well, of course, they are already past.
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Fog and hypocrisy – that is to say, shadow, convention, decency – these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance.
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Women are so perverse. Look how they won’t wear black when nothing suits them so well!
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Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
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Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.
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It is all very well to say that children are happier with mud pies and rag dolls than with these elaborate delights.
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