Elizabeth Bowen Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• We are minor in everything but our passions.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Passion, Literature, Minors

  Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

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

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Art, Feelings, Literature

  Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

• One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Educational, Ideas, Shadow

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

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Fate, Destiny, Eagles

  The House in Paris pt. 2, ch. 2 (1935)

• Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Morning, Time, Spring

  Death of the Heart (1938) pt. 2, ch. 1

• It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Friendship, Inspiration, Pockets

• The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Writing, Literature, Firsts

• I became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Character, Directors, Literature

  Elizabeth Bowen (1975). “Pictures and conversations”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Country, Literature, Married

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

• The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Lying, Two, Literature

  Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

• Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  War, Brain, Toxic

  Elizabeth Bowen (2015). “Bowen's Court & Seven Winters”, p.221, Random House

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

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Unique, Ideas, People

  ELIZABETH BOWEN (1935). “The House in Paris”

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

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Literature, Outcomes, Language

  Elizabeth Bowen (1950). “Collected Impressions”

• I think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Thinking, Literature, Shows

• Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Women, Literature, Intimacy

  "The Death of the Heart". Book by Elizabeth Bowen, 1938.

• Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Degrees, Literature, Shapes

  Elizabeth Bowen (1975). “Pictures and conversations”, Lane, Allen

• There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Children, Talking, Literature

  The House in Paris pt. 1, ch. 2 (1935)

• Education is not so important as people think.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Thinking, People, Important

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

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