Ada Leverson
Ada Leverson
Ada Esther Leversonwas 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...
men thinking wife
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! They forget you share the man as well!
men waiting he-man
Everything comes to the man who won't wait.
eye men feet
an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.
real men intuition
The marvellous instinct with which women are usually credited seems too often to desert them on the only occasions when it would be of any real use. One would say it was there for trivialities only, since in a crisis they are usually dense, fatally doing the wrong thing. It is hardly too much to say that most domestic tragedies are caused by the feminine intuition of men and the want of it in women.
nice mean men
To a woman--I mean, a nice woman--there is no such thing as men. There is a man; and either she is so fond of him that she can talk of nothing else, however unfavourably, or so much in love with him that she never mentions his name.
depressing real men
When I see a cheerful young man shrieking about how full of life he is, banging on a drum, and blowing on a tin trumpet, and speaking of his good spirits, it depresses me, since naturally it gives the contrary impression. It can't be real. It ought to be but it isn't. If the noisy person meant what he said, he wouldn't say it.
letter received until woman women
You don't know a woman until you have received a letter from her.
letter until woman
You don't know a woman until you have a letter from her
fog hypocrisy romance
Fog and hypocrisy - that is to say, shadow, convention, decency - these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance.
morning night infidelity
She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
sarcastic people said
She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
people treasure proportion
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.
people attention
Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
people charming charm
People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.