Enid Bagnold
Enid Bagnold
Enid Algerine Bagnold, Lady Jones, CBEwas a British author and playwright, known for the 1935 story National Velvet...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth27 October 1889
cafe expect frank gateway girl great room step terrible
The great and terrible step was taken. What else could you expect from a girl so expectant? 'Sex,' said Frank Harris, 'is the gateway to life.' So I went through the gateway in an upper room in the Cafe Royal.
death
As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.
phoenix news publicity
Dead news like dead love has no phoenix in its ashes.
judging age
Judges don't age. Time decorates them.
marriage hands years
After forty years of marriage we still stood with broken swords in our hands.
marriage wonderful hell
Marriage. The beginning and the end are wonderful. But the middle part is hell.
timing suitable
Things come suitable to the time.
truth lying interesting
One can lie, but truth is more interesting.
one-day age old-fashioned
You will be old-fashioned one day. It's more shocking than getting old.
sex inequality
Sex -- the great inequality, the great miscalculator, the great Irritator.
discovery pity terrible
Pity is exhaustible. What a terrible discovery!
god dog animal
If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn't happen you are only keeping an animal.
astonishment aging
I shall continue to explore-the astonishment of living.
flirty people age
The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age - what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff.