Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

Elizabeth Bowen

Irish Novelist

Born: Jun 7, 1899

Died: Feb 22, 1973

Alone Feeling Live People Think You

Related authors: Frank Delaney George A. Moore James Joyce John Banville Laurence Sterne Maeve Binchy Robert Graves Roddy Doyle

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies. Elizabeth Bowen

Jealousy Alone Enemies Feeling More Smiling Than Against

Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day. Elizabeth Bowen

Day Nature Morning Winter Spring Autumn Close Early Early Morning

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye. Elizabeth Bowen

Eye Object Mysterious Mystery Your

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat. Elizabeth Bowen

Fate Rat Like Eagle Creeps

We are minor in everything but our passions. Elizabeth Bowen

Our Everything Minor Passions

The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written. Elizabeth Bowen

Writing Value First Out Must Proportion Writer Written Importance Actual

If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm. Elizabeth Bowen

Life You Cause Way One-Way Look Always Alarm

Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone. Elizabeth Bowen

Alone You Lie Lock Never Door Your Wholly

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible. Elizabeth Bowen

Hope Impossible Selfishness Forlorn Pity Lovers Brief

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets. Elizabeth Bowen

Coins Pockets He Putting Got His Friend Holes Help Helpful

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved. Elizabeth Bowen

You Youth Find Taken Taken For Granted Greatness Want Your Granted

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation. Elizabeth Bowen

Language Statement Mixture

Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique. Elizabeth Bowen

People Meeting Unlike Oneself Only Outlook Idea Does Unique

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