Best Elizabeth Bowen Quotations
- Ghosts seem harder to please than we are; it is as though they haunted for haunting’s sake -- much as we relive, brood, and smoulder… Brood
- I am dead against art's being self-expression. I see an inherent failure in any story which fails to detach itself from the author-detach itself in… Adheres
- We have really no absent friends. Absence
- Young girls like the excess of any quality. Without knowing, they want to suffer, to suffer they must exaggerate; they like to have loud chords… Any
- Dialogue should convey a sense of spontaneity but eliminate the repetitiveness of real talk. Convey
- Where would the Irish be without someone to be Irish at? Funny
- For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal. Expectations
- Disappointment tears the bearable film of life. Bearable
- Makes of men date, like makes of car. Car
- After inside upheavals, it is important to fix on imperturbable things. Their imperturbableness, their air that nothing has happened renews our guarantee. Air
- Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice. Inspirational
- There is no doubt that sorrow brings one down in the world. The aristocratic privilege of silence belongs, you soon find out, to only the… Aristocratic
- In big houses in which things are done properly, there is always the religious element. The diurnal cycle is observed with more feeling when there… Big
- Grown-up people seem to be busy by clockwork... They run their unswerving course from object to object, directed by some mysterious inner needle that points… All
- Reason can never reconcile one to life: nothing allays the wants one cannot explain. Allays
- ...there must be something she wanted; and that therefore she was no lady. Funny
- A romantic man often feels more uplifted with two women than with one: his love seems to hit the ideal mark somewhere between two different… Different Faces
- She walked about with the rather fated expression you see in photographs of girls who have subsequently been murdered, but nothing had so far happened… Been
- the slight sense of degeneracy induced by reading novels before luncheon Degeneracy
- But to be quite oneself one must first waste a little time. Firsts
- Karen, her elbows folded on the deck-rail, wanted to share with someone the pleasure in being alone: this is the paradox of any happy solitude.… Alone
- She had one of those charming faces which, according to the angle from which you see them, look either melancholy or impertinent. Her eyes were… According
- Darling, I don't want you; I've got no place for you; I only want what you give. I don't want the whole of anyone.... What… Anybody
- Writers do not find subjects; subjects find them. Find
- With three or more people there is something bold in the air: direct things get said which would frighten two people alone and conscious of… Air
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