Quotes by Elizabeth Bowen

Experience isnt interesting till it begins to repeat itself-in fact till it does that it hardly is experience.

Autumn arrives in the early morning but spring at the close of a winters day.

In big houses in which things are done properly there is always the religious element. The diurnal cycle is observed with more feeling when there are servants to do the work.

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

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

Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.

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

Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.

Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.

“A romantic man often feels more uplifted with two women than with one: his love seems to hit the ideal mark somewhere between two different faces.”