13 Quotes By Elizabeth Bowen

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Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
Elizabeth Bowen on alone

There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.
Elizabeth Bowen on alone

Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.
Elizabeth Bowen on alone

Education is not so important as people think.
Elizabeth Bowen on education

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.
Elizabeth Bowen on experience

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope it is impossible.
Elizabeth Bowen on hope

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
Elizabeth Bowen on jealousy

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.
Elizabeth Bowen on love

Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
Elizabeth Bowen on morning

Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.
Elizabeth Bowen on war

Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.
Elizabeth Bowen on women

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
Elizabeth Bowen on destiny

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