But complex people are never certain that they are not crooks, never certain their passports are quite in order, and are, therefore, unnerved by the slightest thing. Elizabeth Bowen More Quotes by Elizabeth Bowen More Quotes From Elizabeth Bowen Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies. Elizabeth Bowen envyjealousyloneliness Good general-purpose manners nowadays may be said to consist in knowing how much you can get away with. Elizabeth Bowen purposeknowingmay She walked about with the rather fated expression you see in photographs of girls who have subsequently been murdered, but nothing had so far happened to her. Elizabeth Bowen girlphotographexpression Disappointment tears the bearable film off life. Elizabeth Bowen filmtearsdisappointment There's something so showy about desperation, it takes hard wits to see it's a grandiose form of funk. Elizabeth Bowen desperationhopeexpectations Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day. Elizabeth Bowen springtimemorning Young girls like the excess of any quality. Without knowing, they want to suffer, to suffer they must exaggerate; they like to have loud chords struck on them. Elizabeth Bowen luxurygirlknowing 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 adequatebreak-upheart One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it. Elizabeth Bowen shadoweducationalideas A romantic man often feels more uplifted with two women than with one: his love seems to hit the ideal mark somewhere between two different faces. Elizabeth Bowen different-facesmentwo If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm. Elizabeth Bowen positive-attitudediversitylife Dialogue in fiction is what characters do to one another. Elizabeth Bowen craftscharacterfiction Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting. Elizabeth Bowen hurtmemorableart somehow at parties at which one stays standing up one seems to require to be more concentratedly intelligent than one does at those at which one can sit down. Elizabeth Bowen partyintelligentdoe To walk into history is to be free at once, to be at large among people. Elizabeth Bowen walkshistorypeople Dogs are a habit, I think. Elizabeth Bowen dogfunnythinking Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have. Elizabeth Bowen truthsuccesslife The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written. Elizabeth Bowen literaturewritingfirsts Not only is there no question of solitude, but in the long run we may not choose our company. Elizabeth Bowen lonelinessrunninglong I am dead against art's being self-expression. I see an inherent failure in any story which fails to detach itself from the author-detach itself in the sense that a well-blown soap-bubble detaches itself from the bowl of the blower's pipe and spherically takes off into the air as a new, whole, pure, iridescent world. Whereas the ill-blown bubble, as children know, timidly adheres to the bowl's lip, then either bursts or sinks flatly back again. Elizabeth Bowen airchildrenart
