Ada Leverson Quotes

When a passion is not realized … it fades away, or becomes ideal worship–Dante–Petrarch–that sort of thing!

Modesty is a valuable merit … in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have.

Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.

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.

Suspense is torture … but delightful–or there’d be no gambling in the world.

You don’t really know a woman until she writes you a letter.