Ada Esther Leverson (née Beddington; 10 October 1862 – 30 August 1933) was 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.
A morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates most suffering.
Women are so perverse. Look how they won't wear black when nothing suits them so well!
Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.
She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.