Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen, CBEwas an Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 June 1899
CountryIreland
people influence beats
People in love, in whom every sense is open, cannot beat off the influence of a place.
trouble should difficulty
one should discuss one's difficulties only when they are over.
pleasure spoilt
Spoilt pleasure is a sad, unseemly thing; you can only bury it.
art hurt memorable
Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
life positive-attitude diversity
If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.
fate destiny eagles
Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
friendship inspiration coins
It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.
unique ideas people
Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.
history people walks
To walk into history is to be free at once, to be at large among people.
goodbye hurt farewell
Good-byes breed a sort of distaste for whomever you say good-bye to; this hurts, you feel, this must not happen again.
eye looks faces
She had one of those charming faces which, according to the angle from which you see them, look either melancholy or impertinent. Her eyes were grey; her trick of narrowing them made her seem to reflect, the greater part of the time, in the dusk of her second thoughts. With that mood, that touch of arriere pensee, went an uncertain, speaking set of lips.
past haunting sake
Ghosts seem harder to please than we are; it is as though they haunted for haunting’s sake -- much as we relive, brood, and smoulder over our pasts.
break-up heart adequate
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.
writing paper littles
Nothing arrives on paper as it started, and so much arrives that never started at all. To write is always to rave a little-even if one did once know what one meant