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Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

List of quotations and sayings by the irish novelist Elizabeth Bowen on topics like people, love, small

  • Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.

    — Elizabeth Bowen on deceptionlying
    9
  • Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

    — Elizabeth Bowen on envy
    8
  • Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

    — Elizabeth Bowen on love
    8
  • Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.

    — Elizabeth Bowen on brain
    6
  • When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

    — Elizabeth Bowen on love
    4
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  • Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.

    — Elizabeth Bowen on vanity
    4
  • Education is not so important as people think.

    — Elizabeth Bowen on education
    3
  • Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

    — Elizabeth Bowen on fate
    3
  • Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

    — Elizabeth Bowen on absence
    3
  • If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea.

    — Elizabeth Bowen on idea
    2
  • Never to lie is to have no lock to your door, you are never wholly alone.

    — Elizabeth Bowen on deceptionlying
    2
  • 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 on adequate
    2
  • About Elizabeth Bowen

    Name Elizabeth Bowen
    Quotes 34 quotations
    Nationality Irish
    Profession Novelist
    Birthday October 16
    About Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen, CBE was an Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer.
    Top topics people, love, small, friends, absence
  • Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.

    — Elizabeth Bowen on art
    2
  • Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

    — Elizabeth Bowen on growth
    1
  • The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.

    — Elizabeth Bowen on actual
    1
  • Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.

    — Elizabeth Bowen on seasons
    1
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  • It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.

    — Elizabeth Bowen on emotions
    1
  • When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

    — Elizabeth Bowen on love
    0
  • Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.

    — Elizabeth Bowen on colours
    0
  • 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 on memory
    0
  • Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.

    — Elizabeth Bowen on women
    0
  • Intimacies between women go backwards, beginning with revelations and ending up in small talk without loss of esteem.

    — Elizabeth Bowen on men
    0
  • The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

    — Elizabeth Bowen on absence
    0
  • There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.

    — Elizabeth Bowen on children
    0
  • Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself.

    In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

    — Elizabeth Bowen on experience
    0
  • Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.

    — Elizabeth Bowen on speaks
    0
  • 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 on absence
    0
  • No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.

    — Elizabeth Bowen on eye
    0
  • We are minor in everything but our passions.

    — Elizabeth Bowen on minor
    0
  • The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better.

    — Elizabeth Bowen on burning
    0
  • Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.

    — Elizabeth Bowen on art
    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 on greatness
    0
  • Ireland is a great country to die or be married in.

    — Elizabeth Bowen on country
    0
  • Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.

    — Elizabeth Bowen on loneliness
    0
  • Related Topics

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    • envy
    • jealousy
    • feeling
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    • enemies
    • love
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    • forlorn
    • hope
    • impossible
    • brain
    • cruelty
    • fantasy
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    • private
    • start
    • toxic
    • war
    • world
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    • wishes
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    • vanity
    • kinder
    • narcissist
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    • life
    • terms
    • education
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