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...
real literature unexpected
Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
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.
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.
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!
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.
england should butlers
A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible.
envy merit recognition
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.