76 Quotes by Ivy Compton-Burnett

There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.

At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished.

There isn't much to say. I haven't been at all deedy.

it is in our minds that we live much of our life.

People have never lost what they think they have.

We none of us talk to people as we do behind their backs.

Ah, we have to be generous to be grateful ... One has oneself to be a giver.

Never is a long word.

We do not discuss the members of our family to their faces ...