Quotes By Elizabeth Bowen

Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.

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

Education is not so important as people think.

That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.

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

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.

Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.