~ Elizabeth Bowen Quotes ~

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Elizabeth Bowen Quotes


An Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer.
Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen, CBE (7 June 1899 – 22 February 1973) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer.

Here are some famous quotes by Elizabeth Bowen.

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.

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Silences have a climax when you have got to speak.

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If you look at life one way there is always cause for alarm.

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Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

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When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

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Some people are molded by their admirations others by their hostilities.

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Autumn arrives in the early morning but spring at the close of a winter's day.

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For people who live on expectations to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.

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Habit is not mere subjugation it is a tender tie; when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness.

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Proust has pointed out that the predisposition to love creates it's own objects: is this not also true of fear?

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Experience isn't interesting till it begins to repeat itself-in fact till it does that it hardly is experience.

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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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Who ever is adequate? We all create situations which others can't live up to then break our hearts at them because they don't.

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In big houses in which things are done properly there is always the religious element. The diurnal cycle is observed with more feeling when there are servants to do the work.

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Each of us keeps battened down inside himself a sort of lunatic giant -impossible socially but full-scale. It's the knockings and batterings we sometimes hear in each other that keep our intercourse from utter banality.