Elizabeth Bowen quotes Born: 01/07/1899 Died: 02/22/1973 Country: ireland

• Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms. (Elizabeth Bowen) [life]
• It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home. (Elizabeth Bowen) [feelings/housing]
• Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat. (Elizabeth Bowen)
• Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities. (Elizabeth Bowen) [people]
• All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved. (Elizabeth Bowen) [youth/greatness/find]
• The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust. (Elizabeth Bowen) [charm/genius/memory/dust]
• Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible. (Elizabeth Bowen) [pity/selfishness]
• When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out. (Elizabeth Bowen) [love/start]
• Intimacies between women go backwards, beginning with revelations and ending up in small talk without loss of esteem. (Elizabeth Bowen) [women/loss]
• Never to lie is to have no lock to your door, you are never wholly alone. (Elizabeth Bowen)
• Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies. (Elizabeth Bowen) [jealousy/more/feeling/enemies]
• Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day. (Elizabeth Bowen) [autumn/morning/day]
• The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart. (Elizabeth Bowen) [think/people]
• Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. (Elizabeth Bowen) [people]
• Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting. (Elizabeth Bowen) [art/thing]
• Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting. (Elizabeth Bowen)
• Education is not so important as people think. (Elizabeth Bowen)
• Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience. (Elizabeth Bowen)
• Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain. (Elizabeth Bowen)
• Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat. (Elizabeth Bowen)
• I became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am. (Elizabeth Bowen)
• I think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road. (Elizabeth Bowen)
• If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea. (Elizabeth Bowen)
• If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm. (Elizabeth Bowen)
• Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do. (Elizabeth Bowen)
• Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk. (Elizabeth Bowen)
• Ireland is a great country to die or be married in. (Elizabeth Bowen)
• Language is a mixture of statement and evocation. (Elizabeth Bowen)
• Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought. (Elizabeth Bowen)
• Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique. (Elizabeth Bowen)
• Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone. (Elizabeth Bowen)

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