Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen, CBEwas an Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 June 1899
CountryIreland
men car
Makes of men date, like makes of car.
air important guarantees
After inside upheavals, it is important to fix on imperturbable things. Their imperturbableness, their air that nothing has happened renews our guarantee.
sacrifice pity
Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.
regret children anticipate
children like change - for one thing, they never anticipate regret.
dog children moving
When one is a child, the disposition of objects, tables and chairs and doors, seems part of the natural order: a house-move lets in chaos - as it does for a dog.
people youth instruments
very young people are true but not resounding instruments.
men choices luck
Chance is better than choice; it is more lordly. Chance is God, choice is man.
clothes battle wish
Exhibitionism and a nervous wish for concealment, for anonymity, thus battle inside the buyer of any piece of clothing.
passion roots clothes
Dress has never been at all a straightforward business: so much subterranean interest and complex feeling attaches to it. As a topic ... it has a flowery head but deep roots in the passion. On the subject of dress almost no one, for one or another reason, feels truly indifferent: if their own clothes do not concern them, somebody else's do. ... Ten minutes talk about clothes (except between perfect friends) tends to make everyone present either overbearing, guarded or touchy.
sacrifice able way
Sacrificers ... are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those that they sacrifice. Oh, the sacrificers, they get it both ways. A person knows themselves that they're able to do without.
conformity restful
nothing is more restful than conformity.
leap
to leap is not only to leap, it is to hit the ground somewhere.
children people suffering
Also, perhaps children are sterner than grown-up people in their refusal to suffer, in their refusal, even, to feel at all.
two people childhood
Two things are terrible in childhood: helplessness (being in other people's power) and apprehension - the apprehension that something is being concealed from us because it is too bad to be told.