Ivy Compton-Burnett Quotes
- Pushing forty? She's hanging on for dear life.
- There is more difference within the sexes than between them.
- As regards plot I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. And as I think a plot desirable…
- Anyone who picks up a Compton-Burnett finds it very hard not to put it down.
- I never agree with the compliments paid to it. It is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does…
- My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.
- At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished.
- People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.
- There isn't much to say. I haven't been at all deedy.
- As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots.
- Real life seems to have no plots.
- There are differnt kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.
- Real charity and real ability never to condemn-the one real virtue-is so often the result of a waking experience that gives a glimpse of what…
- Well, of course, people are only human... But it really does not seem much for them to be.
- There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.
- We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid.
- Parents have too little respect for their children, just as the children have too much for the parents.
- It is better to be drunk with loss and to beat the ground, than to let the deeper things gradually escape.
- A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.
- Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth,' said his cousin. 'But we seem to have no other.