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.
daughter fathers-day baby
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
death people used
As for death, one gets used to it, even if it is only other people is death you get used to.
one-day age old-fashioned
You will be old-fashioned one day. It's more shocking than getting old.
birth
From birth to death we are alone ...
hands littles bread
The Press blew, the public stared, hands flew out like a million little fishes after bread.
sex inequality
Sex -- the great inequality, the great miscalculator, the great Irritator.
discovery pity terrible
Pity is exhaustible. What a terrible discovery!
judging age
Judges don't age. Time decorates them.
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.
timing suitable
Things come suitable to the time.
marriage wonderful hell
Marriage. The beginning and the end are wonderful. But the middle part is hell.
marriage hands years
After forty years of marriage we still stood with broken swords in our hands.
phoenix news publicity
Dead news like dead love has no phoenix in its ashes.