Elizabeth Bowen Quotes About Passion

Quotes about: Passion

• We are minor in everything but our passions.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Passion, Literature, Minors

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

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

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Passion, May, Habit

  Elizabeth Bowen (2015). “The Heat Of The Day”, p.99, Random House

• Dress has never been at all a straightforward business: so much subterranean interest and complex feeling attaches to it. As a topic ... it has a flowery head but deep roots in the passion. On the subject of dress almost no one, for one or another reason, feels truly indifferent: if their own clothes do not concern them, somebody else's do. ... Ten minutes talk about clothes (except between perfect friends) tends to make everyone present either overbearing, guarded or touchy.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Passion, Roots, Clothes

• The passion of vanity has its own depths in the spirit, and is powerfully militant.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Passion, Vanity, Depth

  Elizabeth Bowen (1949). “The cat jumps, and other stories”

• As a novelist, I cannot occupy myself with "characters," or at any rate central ones, who lack panache, in one or another sense, who would be incapable of a major action or a major passion, or who have not a touch of the ambiguity, the ultimate unaccountability, the enlarging mistiness of persons "in history." History, as more austerely I now know it, is not romantic. But I am.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Passion, Character, History

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