Best Elizabeth Bowen Quotes
- Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone. Alone
- Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it. Always Colours
- That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things. Fiction
- The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round. All
- The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect. Feeling
- There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone. Alone
- Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't. Adequate
- First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making him all looks, silences, gestures,… All
- Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing… Become Love
- One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it. Educational
- Good-byes breed a sort of distaste for whomever you say good-bye to; this hurts, you feel, this must not happen again. Breed
- Habit is not mere subjugation, it is a tender tie; when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness. Been
- Childish fantasy, like the sheath over the bud, not only protects but curbs the terrible budding spirit, protects not only innocence from the world, but… Bud
- Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have. Honesty
- There's something so showy about desperation, it takes hard wits to see it's a grandiose form of funk. Desperation
- Each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant; impossible socially, but full scale; and it's the knockings and battering we… Banality
- The silence of a shut park does not sound like the country silence; it is tense and confined. Confined
- It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home. Build
- Not only is there no question of solitude, but in the long run we may not choose our company. Choose
- I can't see or feel the conflict between love and religion. To me, they're the same thing. Comparison
- Dialogue in fiction is what characters do to one another. Character
- Bring all your intelligence to bear on your beginning. All
- Often when I write I am trying to make words do the work of line and color. I have the painter's sensitivity to light. Much… Color
- Dialogue must appear realistic without being so. Actual realism-the lifting, as it were, of passages from a stenographer's take-down of a 'real life' conversation-would be… Actual
- The craft of the novelist does lie first of all in story-telling. All
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