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Ada Leverson Quotes: "Suspense is torture ... but delightful--or there'd be no gambling in the world."

Suspense is torture ... but delightful--or there'd be no gambling in the world.



Ada Leverson Quotes: "You don't really know a woman until she writes you a letter."

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




Ada Leverson Quotes: "Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature."

Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.



Ada Leverson Quotes: "She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night."

She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.




Ada Leverson Quotes: "The Futurists?.... Well, of course, they are already past."

The Futurists?.... Well, of course, they are already past.



Ada Leverson Quotes: "She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did."

She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.



Ada Leverson Quotes: "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."

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 Leverson Quotes: "It's always something to get one's wish, even if the wish is a failure."

It's always something to get one's wish, even if the wish is a failure.



Ada Leverson Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet."

an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.



Ada Leverson Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed."

People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.




Ada Leverson Quotes: "Everything comes to the man who won't wait."

Everything comes to the man who won't wait.



Ada Leverson Quotes: "Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all."

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



Ada Leverson Quotes: "Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men."

Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.



Ada Leverson Quotes: "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!"

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 Quotes: "When a passion is not realized ... it fades away, or becomes ideal worship--Dante--Petrarch--that sort of thing!"

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



Ada Leverson Quotes: "Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon."

Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.



Ada Leverson Quotes: "Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have."

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 Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible."

A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible.



Ada Leverson Quotes: "Fog and hypocrisy - that is to say, shadow, convention, decency - these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance."

Fog and hypocrisy - that is to say, shadow, convention, decency - these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance.



Ada Leverson Quotes: "A morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates most suffering."

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 Quotes: "Women are so perverse. Look how they won't wear black when nothing suits them so well!"

Women are so perverse. Look how they won't wear black when nothing suits them so well!