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# Elizabeth Bowen

(1899–1973)   Short Story Writer   Ireland

 **275** quotes in **985** categories

Elizabeth Bowen writes that a writer lives through action, conflict, and fast‑moving tension. She notes that love and personal feelings shape the home we build, and that fiction is needed to keep life from feeling too cold. She also reflects on how loneliness can make us more aware of the world around us.

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Elizabeth Bowen was a short story writer from Ireland, best known for *Friends and relations*.

## Quick Facts About Elizabeth Bowen

Born June 7, 1899

Died February 22, 1973

Nationality Ireland

Profession Short Story Writer

Notable works Friends and relations

Known for The House in Paris, The Last September, Eva Trout, The Death of the Heart, The Heat of the Day

Spouse Alan Charles Cameron

## About Elizabeth Bowen

Elizabeth Bowen was an Anglo‑Irish novelist and short‑story writer known for books about Irish country houses and for stories set in wartime London.

## Awards & Honors

James Tait Black Memorial Prize Rome Prize Commander of the Order of the British Empire

##  Quotes by Elizabeth Bowen

> [Silences can be as different as sounds.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/silences-can-be-as-different-as-sounds/)

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[Different](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/different/)

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> [Curiosity in Rome is a form of courtesy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/curiosity-in-rome-is-a-form-of-courtesy/)

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[Courtesy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/courtesy/)

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> [Autumn arrives in the early morning.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/autumn-arrives-in-the-early-morning/)

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[Autumn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/autumn/)

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> [Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/silences-have-a-climax-when-you-have-got-to-speak/)

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[Climax](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/climax/)

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> [nothing is more restful than conformity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/nothing-is-more-restful-than-conformity/)

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[Conformity](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/conformity/)

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> [Writers do not find subjects; subjects find them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/writers-do-not-find-subjects-subjects-find-them/)

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[Subjects](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/subjects/)

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> [No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/no-object-is-mysterious-the-mystery-is-your-eye/)

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[Eye](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/eye/)

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> [Dogs are a habit, I think.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/dogs-are-a-habit-i-think/)

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[Animal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/animal/)

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> [Style is the thing that's always a bit phony, and at the same time you cannot write without style.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/style-is-the-thing-that-s-always-a-bit-phony-and-at-the-same-time-you/)

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[Bits](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bits/)

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> [Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/nobody-can-be-kinder-than-the-narcissist-while-you-react-to-life-in/)

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[Kinder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/kinder/)

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> [But surely love wouldn't get so much talked about if there were not something in it?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/but-surely-love-wouldn-t-get-so-much-talked-about-if-there-were-not/)

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[Love](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/love/)

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> [Meetings that do not come off keep a character of their own. They stay as they were projected.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/meetings-that-do-not-come-off-keep-a-character-of-their-own-they-stay/)

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[Character](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/character/)

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> [one should discuss one's difficulties only when they are over.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/one-should-discuss-one-s-difficulties-only-when-they-are-over/)

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[Difficulties](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/difficulties/)

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> [“As for Thomas, the longer he lived, the less he cared for the world.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/as-for-thomas-the-longer-he-lived-the-less-he-cared-for-the-world/)

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[Thomas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/thomas/)

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> [Dialogue should show the relationships among people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/dialogue-should-show-the-relationships-among-people/)

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[Communication](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/communication/)

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> [children like change - for one thing, they never anticipate regret.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/children-like-change-for-one-thing-they-never-anticipate-regret/)

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[Anticipate](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/anticipate/)

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> [First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making him all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/first-love-with-its-frantic-haughty-imagination-swings-its-object-2/)

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[Attitude](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/attitude/)

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> [Proust has pointed out that the predisposition to love creates its own objects; is this not also true of fear?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/proust-has-pointed-out-that-the-predisposition-to-love-creates-its/)

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[Courage](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/courage/)

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> [Solitary and farouche people don't have relationships; they are quite unrelatable. If you and I were capable of being altogether house-trained and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/solitary-and-farouche-people-don-t-have-relationships-they-are-quite-2/)

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[Capable](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/capable/)

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> [Habit is not mere subjugation, it is a tender tie; when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/habit-is-not-mere-subjugation-it-is-a-tender-tie-when-one-remembers/)

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[Customs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/customs/)

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> [One can suffer a convulsion of one's entire nature, and, unless it makes some noise, no one notices. It's not just that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/one-can-suffer-a-convulsion-of-one-s-entire-nature-and-unless-it/)

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[Existence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/existence/)

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> [...the power-loving temperament is more dangerous when it either prefers or is forced to operate in what is materially a void. Wehave…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/the-power-loving-temperament-is-more-dangerous-when-it-either-prefers/)

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[Dangerous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dangerous/)

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> [Ghosts seem harder to please than we are; it is as though they haunted for haunting’s sake -- much as we relive,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/ghosts-seem-harder-to-please-than-we-are-it-is-as-though-they-haunted/)

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[Ghost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ghost/)

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> [“The happy passive nature, locked up with itself like a mirror in an airy room, reflects what goes on but demands not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/the-happy-passive-nature-locked-up-with-itself-like-a-mirror-in-an/)

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[Nature](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nature/)

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> [The writer, like a swimmer caught by an undertow, is borne in an unexpected direction. He is carried to a subject which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/the-writer-like-a-swimmer-caught-by-an-undertow-is-borne-in-an/)

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[Captured](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/captured/)

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> [The most striking fault in work by young or beginning novelists, submitted for criticism, is irrelevance--due either to infatuation or indecision. To…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/the-most-striking-fault-in-work-by-young-or-beginning-novelists/)

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[Attention](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/attention/)

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> [... a novel survives because of its basic truthfulness, its having within it something general and universal, and a quality of imaginative…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/a-novel-survives-because-of-its-basic-truthfulness-its-having-within/)

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[Books](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/)

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> [Memory must be patchy; what is more alarming is its face-savingness. Something in one shrinks from catching it out - unique to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/memory-must-be-patchy-what-is-more-alarming-is-its-face-savingness/)

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[Catching](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/catching/)

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> [Each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant; impossible socially, but full scale; and it's the knockings…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/each-of-us-keeps-battened-down-inside-himself-a-sort-of-lunatic-giant/)

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[Banality](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/banality/)

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> [Nothing, that is say no one, can be such an inexorable tour-conductor as one's own conscience or sense of duty, if one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/nothing-that-is-say-no-one-can-be-such-an-inexorable-tour-conductor/)

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[Bullying](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bullying/)

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> [whenever possible I avoid talking. Reprieve from talking is my idea of a holiday. At risk of seeming unsociable, which I am,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/whenever-possible-i-avoid-talking-reprieve-from-talking-is-my-idea-of/)

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[Friendly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/friendly/)

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> [“I don't know what's come over this place,' Maud stated. 'However, the Lord did, so in despair He showed me what I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/i-don-t-know-what-s-come-over-this-place-maud-stated-however-the-lord/)

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[Did Despair](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/did-despair-1208667/)

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> [“Innocence so constantly finds itself in a false position that inwardly innocent people learn to be disingenuous. Finding no language in which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/innocence-so-constantly-finds-itself-in-a-false-position-that/)

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[Betrayal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/betrayal/)

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> [Knowledge of Rome must be physical, sweated into the system, worked up into the brain through the thinning shoe-leather. ... When it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/knowledge-of-rome-must-be-physical-sweated-into-the-system-worked-up/)

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[Brain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/brain/)

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> [Dress has never been at all a straightforward business: so much subterranean interest and complex feeling attaches to it. As a topic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/dress-has-never-been-at-all-a-straightforward-business-so-much/)

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[Business](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/business/)

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> [“The beautiful agonising mirage of the university was inescapable from. This was a forever she had no part in. The eternity was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/the-beautiful-agonising-mirage-of-the-university-was-inescapable-from/)

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[Cambridge university](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cambridge-university/)

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> [What is a novel? I say: an invented story. At the same time a story which, though invented has the power to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/what-is-a-novel-i-say-an-invented-story-at-the-same-time-a-story/)

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[Adults](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/adults/)

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> [ Mr. \[Aldous\] Huxley has been the alarming young man for a long time, a sort of perpetual clever nephew who can be… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/mr-aldous-huxley-has-been-the-alarming-young-man-for-a-long-time-a/)

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[Clever](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/clever/)

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> [I am dead against art's being self-expression. I see an inherent failure in any story which fails to detach itself from the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/i-am-dead-against-art-s-being-self-expression-i-see-an-inherent/)

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[Air](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/air/)

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> [“The restaurant was waning, indifferently relaxing its illusion: for the late-comers a private illusion took its place. Their table seemed to stand…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/the-restaurant-was-waning-indifferently-relaxing-its-illusion-for-the/)

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[Solitary Suppers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/solitary-suppers-2041180/)

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## Elizabeth Bowen by topic

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                        "text": "“The beautiful agonising mirage of the university was inescapable from. This was a forever she had no part in. The eternity was more real to her for consisting of fiery particles of transience - bridges the punt slid under, raindrops spattering the Cam with vanishing circles, shivered reflections, echoes evaporating, shadows metamorphosizing, distances shifting, glorification coming and going on buildings at a whim of the sun, grass flashing through arches, gasps of primitive breath coming from stones, dusk ebbing from waxen woodwork when doors opened. Holy pillars flowed upward and fountained out, round them being a ceaseless confluence of fanatical colours burningly staining glass. Nothing was at an end, so nothing stood still. And of this living eternity, of its kind and one of its children, had been Henry, walking beside her.”",
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