Elizabeth Bowen Famous Quotes
"'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies runs with one, walks gravely with another turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame it wounds one, another it kills like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning for there is no force able to resist it."
No object is mysterious. The mystery is in your eye.
"The heart may think it knows better the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart."
It is in this unearthly first hour of spring twilight that earth's almost agonized livingness is most felt. This hour is so dreadful to some people that they hurry indoors and turn on the lights.
Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.
"Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do."
"If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm."
Elizabeth Bowen Quotations
"The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you."
Brendan Francis Behan
"Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech."
Simonides
"Whatever it is, I fear Greeks even when they bring gifts."
Virgil
"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
Albert Camus
"Keen at the start, but careless at the end."
Cornelius Tacitus
"Author A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come."
Montesquieu
Religion is confining and imprisoning and toxic because it is based on ideology and dogma. But spirituality is redeeming and universal.
Deepak Chopra
Shared joy is double joy. Shared sorrow is half sorrow.
Swedish Proverb
Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
Joe Theismann