Quotes by : Elizabeth Bowen

Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.

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

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

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

I swear that each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant - impossible socially,....

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

Silences have a climax when you have got to speak.

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

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

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