Quotes By Elizabeth Bowen

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

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

The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect.

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

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

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.