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
Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms. Elizabeth Bowen
Life You Own Kinder Nobody Terms React Narcissist His Than While
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
Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain. Elizabeth Bowen
War World Cruelty Both Toxic Private Brain Heated Fantasy Start World War
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. Elizabeth Bowen
Self-Respect Tribal Seen Feeling Wish Lover Out Must Lead Part Loved
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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