Quote by Ivy Compton-Burnett Download Open image ““Everything is breaking stones, up to a point.”” — Ivy Compton-Burnett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“No stone is ever broken completely. The parts that fall off are themselves their own stones bearing their own stories.” — Alfrredo Navarro Salanga Copy Share Image
“You can build something beautiful from stones that are put in your way.” — Erich Kästner Copy Share Image
“Don't leave a stone unturned. It's always something, to know you have done the most you could.” — Dickens Copy Share Image
“We can throw stones, complain about them, stumble on them, climb over them, or build with them.” — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
I never know why self-sacrifice is noble. Why is it better to sacrifice oneself than someone else? — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
It will be a beautiful family talk, mean and worried and full of sorrow and spite and excitement. — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
“People do not like to lose their lives. That is the reason why they should not take other people's.” — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life. — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
The plot is not very important to me, though a novel must have one, of course. It's just a line to hang the washing… — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
Time is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it… — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best. — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
