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 LEVERSONIt is all very well to say that children are happier with mud pies and rag dolls than with these elaborate delights.
More Ada Leverson Quotes
-
-
You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
ADA LEVERSON -
Suspense is torture … but delightful–or there’d be no gambling in the world.
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 -
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 -
It’s always something to get one’s wish, even if the wish is a failure.
ADA LEVERSON -
Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
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 -
The 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
ADA LEVERSON -
Everything comes to the man who won’t wait.
ADA LEVERSON -
A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible.
ADA LEVERSON -
You don’t really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
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 -
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 -
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







