--- title: "Best Elizabeth Bowen Quotes" description: "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." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b198/author-elizabeth-bowen-1197.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Elizabeth Bowen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b198/author-elizabeth-bowen-1197.jpg) # Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973) Short Story Writer Ireland **275** quotes in **985** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet 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 · Page 2 > [Ireland is a great country to die or be married in.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/ireland-is-a-great-country-to-die-or-be-married-in/) [Elizabeth Bowen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bowen/) [Country](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/country/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f47/elizabeth-bowen-1197_country_ireland-is-a-great-country-to-die-or-be_454975.png) > [memory is to love what the saucer is to the cup.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/memory-is-to-love-what-the-saucer-is-to-the-cup/) [Elizabeth Bowen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bowen/) [Cups](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cups/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c1f/elizabeth-bowen-1197_cups_memory-is-to-love-what-the-saucer-is-to_2525730.png) > [Makes of men date, like makes of car.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/makes-of-men-date-like-makes-of-car/) [Elizabeth Bowen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bowen/) [Car](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/car/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/60c/elizabeth-bowen-1197_car_makes-of-men-date-like-makes-of-car-1903_1903732.png) > [Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/disappointment-tears-the-bearable-film-off-life/) [Elizabeth Bowen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bowen/) [Bearable](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bearable/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c69/elizabeth-bowen-1197_bearable_disappointment-tears-the-bearable-film-o_732425.png) > [life is a succession of readjustments.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/life-is-a-succession-of-readjustments/) [Elizabeth Bowen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bowen/) [Change](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/change/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/18f/elizabeth-bowen-1197_change_life-is-a-succession-of-readjustments-35_355582.png) > [“Makes of men date, like makes of cars...”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/makes-of-men-date-like-makes-of-cars/) [Elizabeth Bowen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bowen/) [Date](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/date/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6d3/elizabeth-bowen-1197_date_makes-of-men-date-like-makes-of-cars-287_2873916.png) > [nobody ever dies of an indignity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/nobody-ever-dies-of-an-indignity/) [Elizabeth Bowen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bowen/) [Dies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dies/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/283/elizabeth-bowen-1197_dies_nobody-ever-dies-of-an-indignity-1567224_1567224.png) > [“But what a horrible world 'society' is.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/but-what-a-horrible-world-society-is/) [Elizabeth Bowen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bowen/) [Community](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/community/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f63/elizabeth-bowen-1197_community_but-what-a-horrible-world-society-is-176_1765590.png) > [“I wonder where father's gone. He repeatedly goes out but never comes in.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/i-wonder-where-father-s-gone-he-repeatedly-goes-out-but-never-comes-in/) [Elizabeth Bowen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bowen/) [Father](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/father/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d75/elizabeth-bowen-1197_father_i-wonder-where-father-s-gone-he-repeated_3088235.png) > [All good dialogue perhaps deals with something unprecedented.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/all-good-dialogue-perhaps-deals-with-something-unprecedented/) [Elizabeth Bowen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bowen/) [Communication](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/communication/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/18e/elizabeth-bowen-1197_communication_all-good-dialogue-perhaps-deals-with-som_2945067.png) > [“You know, even grown-up people cannot do what they want most" "Then why grow up?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/you-know-even-grown-up-people-cannot-do-what-they-want-most-then-why/) [Elizabeth Bowen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bowen/) [Adolescence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/adolescence/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8f4/elizabeth-bowen-1197_adolescence_you-know-even-grown-up-people-cannot-do_761618.png) > [Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/art-is-one-thing-that-can-go-on-mattering-once-it-has-stopped-hurting/) [Elizabeth Bowen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bowen/) [Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab6/elizabeth-bowen-1197_art_art-is-one-thing-that-can-go-on-matterin_814650.png) > [“But Miss Pym gave an impression, somehow, of having been attacked from within .”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/but-miss-pym-gave-an-impression-somehow-of-having-been-attacked-from/) [Elizabeth Bowen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bowen/) [Attacked](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/attacked/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3c4/elizabeth-bowen-1197_attacked_but-miss-pym-gave-an-impression-somehow_143806.png) > [Sins cut boldly up through every class in society, but mere misdemeanours show a certain level in life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/sins-cut-boldly-up-through-every-class-in-society-but-mere/) [Elizabeth Bowen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bowen/) [Certain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/certain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b4c/elizabeth-bowen-1197_certain_sins-cut-boldly-up-through-every-class-i_3222013.png) > [Everything is very quiet, the streets are never crowded, and the people one dislikes are out of town.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/everything-is-very-quiet-the-streets-are-never-crowded-and-the-people/) [Elizabeth Bowen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bowen/) [Crowded](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/crowded/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ace/elizabeth-bowen-1197_crowded_everything-is-very-quiet-the-streets-are_1511325.png) > [Art, at any rate in a novel, must be indissolubly linked with craft.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/art-at-any-rate-in-a-novel-must-be-indissolubly-linked-with-craft/) [Elizabeth Bowen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bowen/) [Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ed7/elizabeth-bowen-1197_art_art-at-any-rate-in-a-novel-must-be-indis_1043246.png) > [A romantic man often feels more uplifted with two women than with one: his love seems to hit the ideal mark somewhere…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/a-romantic-man-often-feels-more-uplifted-with-two-women-than-with-one/) [Elizabeth Bowen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bowen/) [Different](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/different/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/566/elizabeth-bowen-1197_different_a-romantic-man-often-feels-more-uplifted_2798898.png) > [No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is futile…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/no-it-is-not-only-our-fate-but-our-business-to-lose-innocence-and/) [Elizabeth Bowen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bowen/) [Business](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/business/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/28c/elizabeth-bowen-1197_business_no-it-is-not-only-our-fate-but-our-busin_1691793.png) > [Childish fantasy, like the sheath over the bud, not only protects but curbs the terrible budding spirit, protects not only innocence from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/childish-fantasy-like-the-sheath-over-the-bud-not-only-protects-but/) [Elizabeth Bowen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bowen/) [Bud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bud/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/728/elizabeth-bowen-1197_bud_childish-fantasy-like-the-sheath-over-th_2586999.jpg) > [VNothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/vnothing-can-happen-nowhere-the-locale-of-the-happening-always/) [Elizabeth Bowen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bowen/) [Happening](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/happening/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e1a/elizabeth-bowen-1197_happening_vnothing-can-happen-nowhere-the-locale-o_2598041.png) > [... it appears to me that problems, inherent in any writing, loom unduly large when one looks ahead. Though nothing is easy,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/it-appears-to-me-that-problems-inherent-in-any-writing-loom-unduly/) [Elizabeth Bowen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bowen/) [Easy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/easy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ab/elizabeth-bowen-1197_easy_it-appears-to-me-that-problems-inherent_1617555.png) > [writers do not find subjects: subjects find them. There is not so much a search as a state of open susceptibility.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/writers-do-not-find-subjects-subjects-find-them-there-is-not-so-much/) [Elizabeth Bowen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bowen/) [States](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/states/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d72/elizabeth-bowen-1197_states_writers-do-not-find-subjects-subjects-fi_1421516.png) > [At the age of twelve I was finding the world too small: it appeared to me like a dull, trim back garden,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/at-the-age-of-twelve-i-was-finding-the-world-too-small-it-appeared-to/) [Elizabeth Bowen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bowen/) [Age](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/age/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e43/elizabeth-bowen-1197_age_at-the-age-of-twelve-i-was-finding-the-w_2396910.png) > [What's the matter with this country is the matter with the lot of us individually - our sense of personality is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/what-s-the-matter-with-this-country-is-the-matter-with-the-lot-of-us/) [Elizabeth Bowen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bowen/) [Country](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/country/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bc3/elizabeth-bowen-1197_country_what-s-the-matter-with-this-country-is-t_2447009.png) > [Ghosts, we hope, may be always with us - that is, never too far out of the reach of fancy. On the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/ghosts-we-hope-may-be-always-with-us-that-is-never-too-far-out-of-the/) [Elizabeth Bowen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bowen/) [Century](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/century/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c5f/elizabeth-bowen-1197_century_ghosts-we-hope-may-be-always-with-us-tha_2304168.png) > [What must novel dialogue . . . really be and do? It must be pointed, intentional, relevant. It must crystallize situation. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/what-must-novel-dialogue-really-be-and-do-it-must-be-pointed/) [Elizabeth Bowen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bowen/) [Books](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c33/elizabeth-bowen-1197_books_what-must-novel-dialogue-really-be-and-d_2556865.jpg) > [Dialogue is the ideal means of showing what is between the characters. It crystallizes relationships. It should, ideally, be so effective as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/dialogue-is-the-ideal-means-of-showing-what-is-between-the-characters/) [Elizabeth Bowen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bowen/) [Analysis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/analysis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/54a/elizabeth-bowen-1197_analysis_dialogue-is-the-ideal-means-of-showing-w_2714210.jpg) > [The short story is at an advantage over the novel, and can claim its nearer kinship to poetry, because it must be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/the-short-story-is-at-an-advantage-over-the-novel-and-can-claim-its/) [Elizabeth Bowen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bowen/) [Advantage](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/advantage/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7b9/elizabeth-bowen-1197_advantage_the-short-story-is-at-an-advantage-over_281330.png) > [With three or more people there is something bold in the air: direct things get said which would frighten two people alone…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/with-three-or-more-people-there-is-something-bold-in-the-air-direct/) [Elizabeth Bowen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bowen/) [Air](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/air/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a7/elizabeth-bowen-1197_air_with-three-or-more-people-there-is-somet_2139926.jpg) > [“Did Anna also, sometimes not know what to do next? Because she knew what to do next, because she knew what to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/did-anna-also-sometimes-not-know-what-to-do-next-because-she-knew/) [Elizabeth Bowen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bowen/) [Hesitate](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hesitate/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/135/elizabeth-bowen-1197_hesitate_did-anna-also-sometimes-not-know-what-to_1695120.jpg) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/dialogue-must-appear-realistic-without-being-so-actual-realism-the/) [Elizabeth Bowen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bowen/) [Communication](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/communication/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a76/elizabeth-bowen-1197_communication_dialogue-must-appear-realistic-without-b_1571534.png) > [The Irish landowner, partly from laziness but also from an indifferent delicacy, does not interfere in the lives of the people round.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/the-irish-landowner-partly-from-laziness-but-also-from-an-indifferent/) [Elizabeth Bowen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bowen/) [Death](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/death/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/763/elizabeth-bowen-1197_death_the-irish-landowner-partly-from-laziness_1327072.png) > [“They had met one another, at first not very often, throughout the heady autumn of the first London air raids. Never had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/they-had-met-one-another-at-first-not-very-often-throughout-the-heady/) [Elizabeth Bowen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bowen/) [Autumn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/autumn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/316/elizabeth-bowen-1197_autumn_they-had-met-one-another-at-first-not-ve_3026010.jpg) > [“Young girls like the excess of any quality. Without knowing, they want to suffer, to suffer they must exaggerate; they like to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/young-girls-like-the-excess-of-any-quality-without-knowing-they-want-2/) [Elizabeth Bowen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bowen/) [Enjoy love](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/enjoy-love/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/476/elizabeth-bowen-1197_enjoy-love_young-girls-like-the-excess-of-any-quali_836915.jpg) > [A novel which survives, which withstands and outlives time, does do something more than merely survive. It does not stand still. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/a-novel-which-survives-which-withstands-and-outlives-time-does-do/) [Elizabeth Bowen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bowen/) [Acquire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/acquire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/155/elizabeth-bowen-1197_acquire_a-novel-which-survives-which-withstands_634007.jpg) > [“The inside of the house – with its shallow door-panels, lozenge door-knobs, polished brass ball on the end of the banisters, stuffy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/the-inside-of-the-house-with-its-shallow-door-panels-lozenge-door/) [Elizabeth Bowen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bowen/) [Inside House](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/inside-house-263597/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a90/elizabeth-bowen-1197_inside-house_the-inside-of-the-house-with-its-shallow_917822.jpg) > [“And because no one answered or cared and a conversation went on without her she felt profoundly lonely, suspecting once more for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/and-because-no-one-answered-or-cared-and-a-conversation-went-on/) [Elizabeth Bowen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bowen/) [Communication](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/communication/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ff/elizabeth-bowen-1197_communication_and-because-no-one-answered-or-cared-and_2132573.png) > [Plot is the knowing of destination.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/plot-is-the-knowing-of-destination/) [Elizabeth Bowen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bowen/) [Destination](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/destination/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fad/elizabeth-bowen-1197_destination_plot-is-the-knowing-of-destination-91208_912089.png) > [Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/fate-is-not-an-eagle-it-creeps-like-a-rat/) [Elizabeth Bowen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bowen/) [Creeps](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/creeps/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ebe/elizabeth-bowen-1197_creeps_fate-is-not-an-eagle-it-creeps-like-a-ra_2532774.png) > [“A living dog's better than a dead lion.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bowen/a-living-dog-s-better-than-a-dead-lion/) [Elizabeth Bowen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bowen/) [Better](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/better/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/262/elizabeth-bowen-1197_better_a-living-dog-s-better-than-a-dead-lion-5_593935.png) ## Elizabeth Bowen by topic [Writing (32)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/writing/elizabeth-bowen/) [Writer (30)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/writer/elizabeth-bowen/) [People (25)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/people/elizabeth-bowen/) [Love (25)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/love/elizabeth-bowen/) [Life 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