Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

Ireland, Novelist
June 7, 1899 – February, 22, 1973.

Elizabeth Bowen, CBE ( 7 June 1899 – 22 February 1973) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer, notable for some of the best fiction about life in wartime London.

The heart may think it knows better: The senses know that absence blots people out. We have really no absent friends.

Elizabeth Bowen
- People
- Heart
- May
Intimacies between women go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending up in small talk without loss of esteem.

Elizabeth Bowen
- Up
- Women
- Small

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself - in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

Elizabeth Bowen
- Experience
- Interesting
Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

Elizabeth Bowen
- Fate
'What's the matter with this country is the matter with the lot of us individually- our sense of personality is a sense of outrage and we'll never get outside of it.'But the hold of the country was that, she considered, it could be thought of in terms of oneself, so interpreted.

Elizabeth Bowen
- Country
- She
- Personality
And yet in a way I would rather fail point blank. Things one can do have no value. I don't mind feeling small myself, but I dread finding the world is.

Elizabeth Bowen
- World
- Mind
- Feeling