Ada Leverson Quotes
Top 24 wise famous quotes and sayings by Ada Leverson
Ada Leverson Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible.
An optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.
Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have ...
Fog and hypocrisy - that is to say, shadow, convention, decency - these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance.
People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.
A morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates most suffering.
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.
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.
When a passion is not realized ... it fades away, or becomes ideal worship
Dante
Petrarch
that sort of thing!
Dante
Petrarch
that sort of thing!