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Top 20 Ada Leverson Quotes (2024 Update)

Ada Leverson Quote: “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!”

1. “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

Ada Leverson Quote: “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.”

2. “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

Ada Leverson Quote: “Fog and hypocrisy – that is to say, shadow, convention, decency – these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance.”

3. “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

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Ada Leverson Quote: “She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.”

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

— Ada Leverson

Ada Leverson Quote: “Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.”

5. “Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.”

— Ada Leverson

Ada Leverson Quote: “You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.”

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

— Ada Leverson

Ada Leverson Quote: “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.”

7. “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

Ada Leverson Quote: “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.”

8. “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

Ada Leverson Quote: “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.”

9. “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

Ada Leverson Quote: “Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.”

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

— Ada Leverson

Ada Leverson Quote: “Everything comes to the man who won’t wait.”

11. “Everything comes to the man who won’t wait.”

— Ada Leverson

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

12. “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

Ada Leverson Quote: “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.”

13. “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

Ada Leverson Quote: “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.”

14. “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

Ada Leverson Quote: “It’s always something to get one’s wish, even if the wish is a failure.”

15. “It’s always something to get one’s wish, even if the wish is a failure.”

— Ada Leverson

Ada Leverson Quote: “Women are so perverse. Look how they won’t wear black when nothing suits them so well!”

16. “Women are so perverse. Look how they won’t wear black when nothing suits them so well!”

— Ada Leverson

Ada Leverson Quote: “People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.”

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

— Ada Leverson

Ada Leverson Quote: “Some men are born husbands; they have a passion for domesticity, for a fireside, for a home. Yet, curiously, these men very rarely stay at home. Apparently what they want is to have a place to get away from.”

18. “Some men are born husbands; they have a passion for domesticity, for a fireside, for a home. Yet, curiously, these men very rarely stay at home. Apparently what they want is to have a place to get away from.”

— Ada Leverson

Ada Leverson Quote: “Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.”

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

— Ada Leverson

Ada Leverson Quote: “Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.”

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

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Ada Leverson Quote: “She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.”

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

— Ada Leverson

Ada Leverson Quote: “A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible.”

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

— Ada Leverson

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