charm should be on the surface. It has no hidden use. Ivy Compton-Burnett More Quotes by Ivy Compton-Burnett More Quotes From Ivy Compton-Burnett If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward me. Ivy Compton-Burnett parentwould-bechildren Civilized life exacts its toll. Ivy Compton-Burnett civilizedtolls Anyone who picks up a Compton-Burnett finds it very hard not to put it down. Ivy Compton-Burnett comptonpickshard I never agree with the compliments paid to it. It is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary. Ivy Compton-Burnett healingdoesometimes At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished. Ivy Compton-Burnett certainjamjars some people always have a touch of youth about them. Ivy Compton-Burnett youthagepeople It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests. Ivy Compton-Burnett interestpeoplethinking Ah, we have to be generous to be grateful ... One has oneself to be a giver. Ivy Compton-Burnett givergratitudegrateful We none of us talk to people as we do behind their backs. Ivy Compton-Burnett insinceritybehindspeople People have never lost what they think they have. Ivy Compton-Burnett losspeoplethinking it is in our minds that we live much of our life. Ivy Compton-Burnett our-livesmind It is better to be drunk with loss and to beat the ground, than to let the deeper things gradually escape. Ivy Compton-Burnett beatsdrunkloss Parents have too little respect for their children, just as the children have too much for the parents. Ivy Compton-Burnett parentlittleschildren We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid. Ivy Compton-Burnett foundationwellsifs Well, of course, people are only human... But it really does not seem much for them to be. Ivy Compton-Burnett wellsdoepeople Real charity and real ability never to condemn-the one real virtue-is so often the result of a waking experience that gives a glimpse of what lies beneath things. Ivy Compton-Burnett realgivinglying I think I feel on the whole that something's there trying to get out ... It's sort of trying to get out and wants help. Ivy Compton-Burnett wanttryingthinking Time is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary. Ivy Compton-Burnett greathealingtimesometimes
