Quote: Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms. [Elizabeth Bowen]
Quote: It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home. [Elizabeth Bowen]
Quote: Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat. [Elizabeth Bowen]
Quote: Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities. [Elizabeth Bowen]
Quote: All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved. [Elizabeth Bowen]
Quote: 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]
Quote: Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible. [Elizabeth Bowen]
Quote: When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out. [Elizabeth Bowen]
Quote: Intimacies between women go backwards, beginning with revelations and ending up in small talk without loss of esteem. [Elizabeth Bowen]
Quote: Never to lie is to have no lock to your door, you are never wholly alone. [Elizabeth Bowen]
Quote: Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies. [Elizabeth Bowen]
Quote: Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day. [Elizabeth Bowen]
Quote: 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]
Quote: Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. [Elizabeth Bowen]
Quote: Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting. [Elizabeth Bowen]
Quote: Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting. [Elizabeth Bowen]
Quote: Education is not so important as people think. [Elizabeth Bowen]
Quote: Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience. [Elizabeth Bowen]
Quote: Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain. [Elizabeth Bowen]
Quote: 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]
Quote: I think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road. [Elizabeth Bowen]
Quote: If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea. [Elizabeth Bowen]
Quote: If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm. [Elizabeth Bowen]
Quote: Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do. [Elizabeth Bowen]
Quote: Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk. [Elizabeth Bowen]