She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
ADA LEVERSONThe Futurists?…. Well, of course, they are already past.
More Ada Leverson Quotes
-
-
Since in a crisis they are usually dense, fatally doing the wrong thing. It is hardly too much to say that most domestic tragedies are caused by the feminine intuition of men and the want of it in women.
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 -
The Futurists?…. Well, of course, they are already past.
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 -
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 -
You don’t really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
ADA LEVERSON -
an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.
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 -
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 -
Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.
ADA LEVERSON -
Suspense is torture … but delightful–or there’d be no gambling in the world.
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 -
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