Enid Bagnold
Enid Bagnold
Enid Algerine Bagnold, Lady Jones, CBEwas a British author and playwright, known for the 1935 story National Velvet...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth27 October 1889
morning night bird
Why do birds sing in the morning? It's the triumphant shout: 'We got through another night!'
god dog animal
If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn't happen you are only keeping an animal.
astonishment aging
I shall continue to explore-the astonishment of living.
flirty people age
The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age - what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff.
fall everyday
Before you fall asleep everyday, say something positive to yourself.
age certain knows
One never knows when one is old for certain.
birth
From birth to death we are alone ...
death war dying
if death becomes cheap it is the watcher, not the dying, who is poisoned.
brother fear pain
Isn't the fear of pain next brother to pain itself?
hate dangerous seems
The dangerous thing about hate is that it seems so reasonable.
children twelve only-child
An only child is never twelve.
money may dear-god
There may be wonder in money, but, dear God, there is money in wonder.
hands littles bread
The Press blew, the public stared, hands flew out like a million little fishes after bread.
morning eating palate
One's palate is reborn every morning!