When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out. Elizabeth Bowen Irish Novelist More Elizabeth Bowen Quotes 1
Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't. Elizabeth Bowen Irish Novelist More Elizabeth Bowen Quotes 0
All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved. Elizabeth Bowen Irish Novelist More Elizabeth Bowen Quotes 0
Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting. Elizabeth Bowen Irish Novelist More Elizabeth Bowen Quotes 0
Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day. Elizabeth Bowen Irish Novelist More Elizabeth Bowen Quotes 0
Education is not so important as people think. Elizabeth Bowen Irish Novelist More Elizabeth Bowen Quotes 0
Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience. Elizabeth Bowen Irish Novelist More Elizabeth Bowen Quotes 0
Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain. Elizabeth Bowen Irish Novelist More Elizabeth Bowen Quotes 0
Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat. Elizabeth Bowen Irish Novelist More Elizabeth Bowen Quotes 0
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 Irish Novelist More Elizabeth Bowen Quotes 0
I think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road. Elizabeth Bowen Irish Novelist More Elizabeth Bowen Quotes 0
If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea. Elizabeth Bowen Irish Novelist More Elizabeth Bowen Quotes 0
If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm. Elizabeth Bowen Irish Novelist More Elizabeth Bowen Quotes 0
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do. Elizabeth Bowen Irish Novelist More Elizabeth Bowen Quotes 0
Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk. Elizabeth Bowen Irish Novelist More Elizabeth Bowen Quotes 0
Ireland is a great country to die or be married in. Elizabeth Bowen Irish Novelist More Elizabeth Bowen Quotes 0
It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets. Elizabeth Bowen Irish Novelist More Elizabeth Bowen Quotes 0
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies. Elizabeth Bowen Irish Novelist More Elizabeth Bowen Quotes 0
Language is a mixture of statement and evocation. Elizabeth Bowen Irish Novelist More Elizabeth Bowen Quotes 0
Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought. Elizabeth Bowen Irish Novelist More Elizabeth Bowen Quotes 0
Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique. Elizabeth Bowen Irish Novelist More Elizabeth Bowen Quotes 0
Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone. Elizabeth Bowen Irish Novelist More Elizabeth Bowen Quotes 0
No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye. Elizabeth Bowen Irish Novelist More Elizabeth Bowen Quotes 0
Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms. Elizabeth Bowen Irish Novelist More Elizabeth Bowen Quotes 0
Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it. Elizabeth Bowen Irish Novelist More Elizabeth Bowen Quotes 0