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Ada Leverson était écrivaine britannique.

✵ 10. octobre 1862 – 30. août 1933
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Ada Leverson: Citations en anglais

“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.”

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Ada Leverson

Source: Love's Shadow (1908), Chapter xxxix.

“She thought that most women make a great mistake in allowing dress to be the master instead of the servant of their good looks; many women were, she considered, entirely crushed and made insignificant by the beauty of their clothes.”

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Ada Leverson

Source: Tenterhooks (1912), Chapter x.

“He had no special hobbies, but he needed luxury in general of a kind, and especially the luxury of getting things in a hurry, his theory being that everything comes to the man who won't wait.”

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Ada Leverson

Source: Tenterhooks (1912), Chapter vii.

“Lady Cannon's gone to a matinée at the St. James's. We had tickets for the first night, but of course she wouldn't use them then. She preferred to go alone in the afternoon, because she detests the theatre, anyhow, and afternoon performances give her a headache. If she does a thing that's disagreeable to her, she likes to do it in the most painful possible way. She has a beautiful nature.”

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Ada Leverson

Source: Love's Shadow (1908), Chapter ii.

“Some men are born husbands; they have a passion for domesticity, for a fireside, for a home. Yet, curiously, these men very rarely stay at home. Apparently what they want is to have a place to get away from.”

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Ada Leverson

Source: Love at Second Sight (1916), Chapter xviii.

“Somehow she had thought of him so much that when she actually saw him again her affection seemed cooler. Had she worn out the passion by dint of constancy?”

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Ada Leverson

Source: Love at Second Sight (1916), Chapter x.

“Like all weddings it had left the strange feeling of futility, the slight sense of depression that comes to English people who have tried, from their strong sense of tradition, to be festive and sentimental and in high spirits too early in the day. The frame of mind supposed to be appropriate to an afternoon wedding can only be genuinely experienced by an Englishman at two o'clock in the morning.”

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Ada Leverson

Source: Love's Shadow (1908), Chapter xxiv.

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