Quotes by : Elizabeth Bowen

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....

Each of us keeps battened down inside himself a sort of lunatic giant -impossible socially but full-scale.....

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

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

Autumn arrives in the early morning but spring at the close of a winter's day.

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

Karen, her elbows folded on the deck-rail, wanted to share with someone her pleasure in being alone:....

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