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...
ease gentleman last seemed
He seemed at ease and to have the look of the last gentleman in Europe.
letter until woman
You don't know a woman until you have a letter from her
letter received until woman women
You don't know a woman until you have received a letter from her.
letters knows
You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
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.
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.
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.
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.