Quotes from Ada Leverson

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.

Everything comes to the man who won't wait.

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

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

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

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!

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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