About Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen ( BOH-ən; 7 June 1899 – 22 February 1973) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer notable for her books about "the Big House" of Irish landed Protestants as well as her fiction about life in wartime London.
More quotations from Elizabeth Bowen
If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.
Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.
Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.
Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
More quotations tagged with “ideas”
"Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.
It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.
Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.
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