Quotes by : Elizabeth Bowen

With three or more people there is something bold in the air: direct things get said which would frighten....

She posed as being more indolent than she felt, for fear of finding herself less able than she could....

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Livvy noted there seemed some communal feeling between the married: any wife could be faintly rude to....

Experience isn't interesting till it begins to repeat itself-in fact till it does that it hardly is....

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Who ever is adequate? We all create situations which others can't live up to then break our hearts at....

Silences have a climax when you have got to speak.

With three or more people there is something bold in the air: direct things get said which would frighten....

And because no one answered or cared and a conversation went on without her she felt profoundly lonely,....