Famous Quotes / Elizabeth Bowen
31 Quotations by Elizabeth Bowen
- 21. Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's re ...
- 22. Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.
- 23. Proust has pointed out that the predisposition to love creates it's own objects: is this not also tr ...
- 24. Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.
- 25. Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
- 26. Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
- 27. The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it r ...
- 28. The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it r ...
- 29. The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have n ...
- 30. When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
- 31. Who ever is adequate? We all create situations which others can't live up to, then break our hearts ...