Quotes by Elizabeth Bowen

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

#Fate

First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over...

#First Love

Good-byes breed a sort of distaste for whomever you say good-bye to; this hurts, you...

#Goodbye

Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that...

#Ideas

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live,...

#Illusions

The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do...

#Innocence

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation

#Language

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought

#Language

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find...

#Taken For Granted

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

#Feeling Lonely