Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen, CBEwas an Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 June 1899
CountryIreland
lonely pain loneliness
Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.
literature shapes degrees
Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.
fiction hub
That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.
lying two literature
The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round.
respect self feelings
The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect.
children talking literature
There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.
want reason reconcile
Reason can never reconcile one to life: nothing allays the wants one cannot explain.
religious house feelings
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.
knowing plot destination
Plot is the knowing of destination.
language currency shops
Don't you understand that all language is dead currency? How they keep on playing shop with it all the same ...
knowing purpose may
Good general-purpose manners nowadays may be said to consist in knowing how much you can get away with.
country personality matter
What's the matter with this country is the matter with the lot of us individually - our sense of personality is a sense of outrage ...
hot rudeness manners
rudeness to Mrs. Dosely was like dropping a pat of butter on to a hot plate - it slid and melted away.
party intelligent doe
somehow at parties at which one stays standing up one seems to require to be more concentratedly intelligent than one does at those at which one can sit down.