15 Quotes by Olivia Manning

This was a world in which only the ignorant could be happy.

Was there any more repellent sight, Harriet wondered, than a silly, self-centred, greedy woman clad in the skin of a beast so much more splendid than herself?

Ignorance breeds fear. Tell people the truth. Trust them to keep their heads.

She’s just a typical bourgeois reactionary.’ ‘You mean, her prejudices are different from yours.

Enjoy yourself while you've still got the chance.

The sense of belonging together had been deeper than love.

A man is made by his circumstances... If you want to change him, change his circumstances.

Harriet was reminded of Doamna Flöhr’s claim that the exclusiveness of the Jews was the exclusiveness of the excluded.

[T]he exclusiveness of the Jews was the exclusiveness of the excluded.