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
loss thinking people
People have never lost what they think they have.
people insincerity behinds
We none of us talk to people as we do behind their backs.
death people feelings
When I die, people will say it is the best thing for me. It is because they know it is the worst. They want to avoid the feeling of pity. As though they were the people most concerned!
book writing people
Most of the pleasure of making a book would go if it held nothing to be shared by other people. I would write for a few dozen people, and sometimes it seems that I do so, but I would not write for no-one.
people age youth
some people always have a touch of youth about them.
long people youth
To young people the future is still long.
grateful people able
It is not for us to hold ourselves above the position of grateful people. We have to be able to accept. Anything else shows an unwillingness to grant someone else the superior place.
self people sides
People's weaker side is not necessarily their truer self.
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.
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.
thinking people interest
It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.
book people ease
I am ill at ease with people whose lives are an open book.
people mind
People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.