Elizabeth Bowen Quotes About Ireland

Quotes about: Ireland

• Ireland is a great country to die or be married in.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Country, Literature, Married

  Elizabeth Bowen (1998). “Bowen's Court”

• Sport and death are the two great socializing factors in Ireland.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Sports, Two, Ireland

  Elizabeth Bowen (1998). “Bowen's Court”

• The Irish landowner, partly from laziness but also from an indifferent delicacy, does not interfere in the lives of the people round. Sport and death are the two great socializing factors in Ireland, but these cannot operate the whole time: on the whole, the landowner leaves his tenants and work-people to make their own mistakes, while he makes his.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Sports, Mistake, Two

• Art is for [the Irish] inseparable from artifice: of that, the theatre is the home. Possibly, it was England made me a novelist.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Art, Home, Theatre

• ...though one can be callous in Ireland one cannot be wholly opaque or material. An unearthly disturbance works in the spirit; reason can never reconcile one to life; nothing allays the wants one cannot explain.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Opaque, Want, Spirit

  Elizabeth Bowen (1998). “Bowen's Court”

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