43 Quotes by 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.

Everything comes to the man who won't wait.

Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have ...

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

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.

Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.

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

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

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