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.
aunt both conscience giving hand ignored pressed sovereign though took william
Before he left, Aunt William pressed a sovereign into his hand guiltily, as if it were conscience money. He, on his side, took it as though it were a doctor's fee, and both ignored the transaction.
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.
talking people may
All really frank people are amusing, and would remain so if they could remember that other people may sometimes want to be frank and amusing too.
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.
people charming charm
People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.
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.
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.
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.