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.

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

You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.

Everything comes to the man who won't wait.