Quotes by : Elizabeth Bowen

Darling, I don't want you; I've got no place for you; I only want what you give. I don't want the whole....

Some people are molded by their admirations others by their hostilities.

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

If they should only be ill,' she said, 'there would be so many little things we could do for them. It....

For people who live on expectations to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.

The way one is envisaged by other people - what easier way is there of envisaging oneself? There is a....

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

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

In big houses in which things are done properly there is always the religious element. The diurnal cycle....

One's sentiments -- call them that -- one's fidelities are so instinctive that one hardly knows they....