Classic Quotes by Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) English writer
Published in History & Quotes
All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.
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Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
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Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.
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Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
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Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.
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It is in this unearthly first hour of spring twilight that earth's almost agonized livingness is most felt. This hour is so dreadful to some people that they hurry indoors and turn on the lights.
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It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.
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It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.
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No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.
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