Ada Leverson Quotes - Page 2

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

  Ada Leverson

  Gambling, Suspense, World

  Ada Leverson (1907). “The Twelfth Hour”

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

  Ada Leverson

  England, Should, Butlers

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• 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

  Fog, Hypocrisy, Romance

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• 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

  Suffering, Causes, Life Is

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

  Ada Leverson

  Black, Looks, Suits

  Ada Leverson (1907). “The Twelfth Hour”

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• 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, Mean, Men

  Ada Leverson (2012). “Love at Second Sight”, p.97, tredition

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• 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

  Children, Pie, Giving

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