Ada Leverson Quotes

United Kingdom, Author
October 10, 1862 – August, 30, 1933.

Ada Esther Leverson (née Beddington) was a British writer who is known for her friendship with Oscar Wilde and for her work as a witty novelist of the fin-de-siècle.

You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.

Ada Leverson
- Know
- Woman
- Letter
Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.

Ada Leverson
- Women
- Quality
- Intuition

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

Ada Leverson
- Optimist
- Pessimist
Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.

Ada Leverson
- Life
- Things
- Literature
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
- London
- Hypocrisy
- Fog
Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.

Ada Leverson
- People
- Through
- Seen
Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have.

Ada Leverson
- Have
- Modesty
- Merit
Everything comes to the man who won't wait.

Ada Leverson
- Man
- Wait
- Comes