Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.
Elizabeth Bowen

Language, Statement, Mixture

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

Alone, Lie, Door

Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.
Elizabeth Bowen

Truth, Nobody, Speaks

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

Nothing, Happen, Often

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.
Elizabeth Bowen

Live, Idea, Shadow

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

Hope, Impossible, Lovers

That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.
Elizabeth Bowen

Women, Why, Keep

The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
Elizabeth Bowen

Heart, May, Friends

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

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.
Elizabeth Bowen

Feeling, Wish, Loved

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

Alone, End, Children

Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.
Elizabeth Bowen

Live, Create, Break

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Born: June 7, 1899

Died: February 22, 1973

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