A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible. Ada Leverson More Quotes by Ada Leverson More Quotes From Ada Leverson You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her. Ada Leverson knows letters You don't really know a woman until she writes you a letter. Ada Leverson knows letters writing 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, 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 Leverson depressing real men The Futurists?.... Well, of course, they are already past. Ada Leverson futurist wells past Looking at the poems of John Gray when I saw the tiniest rivulet of text meandering through the very largest meadow of margin, I suggested to Oscar Wilde that he should go a step further than these minor poets; he should publish a book all margin; full of beautiful, unwritten thoughts. Ada Leverson oscars beautiful book Everything comes to the man who won't wait. Ada Leverson he-man waiting men Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature. Ada Leverson unexpected real literature 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 proportion treasure people 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 pain satisfaction joy It's always something to get one's wish, even if the wish is a failure. Ada Leverson ifs wish 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 may talking people It is all very well to say that children are happier with mud pies and rag dolls than with these elaborate delights. There may be something in this theory, but when their amusements are carried to such a point of luxurious and imaginative perfection it certainly gives them great and even unlimited enjoyment at the time. Ada Leverson pie giving children 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, 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 intuition real men To a woman--I mean, a nice woman--there is no such thing as men. There is a man; and either she is so fond of him that she can talk of nothing else, however unfavourably, or so much in love with him that she never mentions his name. Ada Leverson nice men mean Women are so perverse. Look how they won't wear black when nothing suits them so well! Ada Leverson suits black looks 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 betrayal betrayed two Suspense is torture ... but delightful--or there'd be no gambling in the world. Ada Leverson suspense gambling world 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 causes suffering life-is When a passion is not realized ... it fades away, or becomes ideal worship--Dante--Petrarch--that sort of thing! Ada Leverson ideals passion worship She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did. Ada Leverson sarcastic said people
