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

- 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 W…

- Ada Leverson

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

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

- Ada Leverson

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.

- Ada Leverson

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! …

- Ada Leverson

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

- Ada Leverson

Everything comes to the man who won't wait.

- Ada Leverson

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

- Ada Leverson