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...
salmon
Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.
real literature unexpected
Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
people attention
Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
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.
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!
sarcastic people said
She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.
morning night infidelity
She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.
writing letters knows
You don't really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
women intuition quality
Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
gambling suspense world
Suspense is torture ... but delightful--or there'd be no gambling in the world.
passion worship fades
When a passion is not realized ... it fades away, or becomes ideal worship--Dante--Petrarch--that sort of thing!
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.
children pie giving
It is all very well to say that children are happier with mud pies and rag dolls than with these elaborate delights. There may be something in this theory, but when their amusements are carried to such a point of luxurious and imaginative perfection it certainly gives them great and even unlimited enjoyment at the time.
betrayal two betrayed
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.