Ivy Compton-Burnett
Ivy Compton-Burnett
Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett, DBEwas an English novelist, publishedas I. Compton-Burnett. She was awarded the 1955 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for her novel Mother and Son...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth5 June 1884
travel race migration
I wonder the human race has been so fond of migrations, when the young take so hardly to traveling ...
thinking trying want
I think I feel on the whole that something's there trying to get out ... It's sort of trying to get out and wants help.
people mind would-be
You should not want to know the things in people's minds. If you were meant to hear them, they would be said.
concern self-importance
What concerns anyone so much as the time he has to live?
real lying giving
Real charity and real ability never to condemn-the one real virtue-is so often the result of a waking experience that gives a glimpse of what lies beneath things.
children parent too-much
Parents have too little respect for their children, just as the children have too much for the parents.
foundation wells ifs
We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid.
people doe wells
Well, of course, people are only human... But it really does not seem much for them to be.
women people together
There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.
loss drunk beats
It is better to be drunk with loss and to beat the ground, than to let the deeper things gradually escape.
feelings doe leopards
A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.
thinking people interest
It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.
real plot helping
As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots.
healing doe sometimes
I never agree with the compliments paid to it. It is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary.