Quotes By Elizabeth Bowen

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

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

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.

The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round.

Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.

We are minor in everything but our passions.

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