Enid Bagnold

An only child is never twelve.

— Enid Bagnold

One never knows when one is old for certain.

— Enid Bagnold

One's palate is reborn every morning!

— Enid Bagnold

The dangerous thing about hate is that it seems so reasonable.

— Enid Bagnold

After forty years of marriage we still stood with broken swords in our hands.

— Enid Bagnold

if death becomes cheap it is the watcher, not the dying, who is poisoned.

— Enid Bagnold

The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.

— Enid Bagnold

But I had been in love pretty often and I didn't think it stood the wear and tear.

— Enid Bagnold

When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.

— Enid Bagnold

There may be wonder in money, but, dear God, there is money in wonder.

— Enid Bagnold

“If I had my life over again[, ] I'd have thought more about words. And thought about them earlier.”

— Enid Bagnold

Let this serve as an axiom to every lover: A woman who refuses lunch refuses everything.

— Enid Bagnold