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Elizabeth Bowen [1899-1973] Irish

Rank: 102
Novelist

Elizabeth Bowen, CBE was an Irish novelist and short story writer.

Alone, Art, Imagination, Jealousy, Morning, Nature, Truth, Valentine's Day, War, Women

Quote	Tags	Rank
Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.	Morning, Nature	101
No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.		102
When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.	Valentine's Day	103
We are minor in everything but our passions.		104
If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.		105
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.	Alone, Jealousy	106
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.	Art	107
Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.	Art	108
Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.		109
Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.	War	110
One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.	Imagination	111
Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.		112
There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.	Alone	113
Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.	Truth	114
Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.	Women	115
Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.		116
All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.		117
The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect.		118
Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.		119
Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.		120
Ireland is a great country to die or be married in.		121
Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.		122
It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.		123
Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.		124
Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.		125
Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.		126
The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.		201
If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea.		202
Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.		203
Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.		204
The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round.		205
I think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road.		206
I became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am.		207
The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better.		208
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.		209
That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.		210
Education is not so important as people think.		211

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