357 Quotes by Elizabeth Bowen

Education is not so important as people think.

All my life I have said, "Whatever happens there will always be tables and chairs"--and what a mistake.

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

I pity people who do not care for Society. They are poorer for the oblation they do not make.

Habit, of which passion must be wary, may all the same be the sweetest part of love.

Almost everyone admits to hunger during the Opera.... Hunger is so exalting that during a last act you practically levitate.

Raids are slightly constipating.

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.

I suspect victims; they win in the long run.