Marjorie Bowen Quotes

• What a rope of sand we are without a leader.

  Marjorie Bowen

  Leadership, Leader, Rope

  Marjorie Bowen (1907). “The Master of Stair”

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• Does one ever see any ghost that is not oneself?

  Marjorie Bowen

  Doe, Ghost, Oneself

  Marjorie Bowen (1948). “Mignonette: A Novel”

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• I think sometimes - do not we all? - that perhaps the present year is my last year and that all my busyness is foolish.

  Marjorie Bowen

  Death, Thinking, Years

  Marjorie Bowen (1951). “To Bed at Noon”

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• Even a fool can deceive a man - if he be a bigger fool than himself.

  Marjorie Bowen

  Men, Fool, Deceiving

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• It is more difficult ... to rule the King's favorites than for the favorites to rule the King.

  Marjorie Bowen

  Kings, Difficult

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• Flattery is so necessary to us that we flatter one another just to be flattered in return.

  Marjorie Bowen

  Return, Flattery, Flattered

  Marjorie Bowen (1938). “World's Wonder and Other Essays”

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