It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home. — Elizabeth Bowen
We desert those who desert us; we cannot afford to suffer; we must live how we can. — Elizabeth Bowen
People in love, in whom every sense is open, cannot beat off the influence of a place. — Elizabeth Bowen
Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk. — Elizabeth Bowen
All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved. — Elizabeth Bowen
Experience isn’t interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience. — Elizabeth Bowen
Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain. — Elizabeth Bowen
If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea. — Elizabeth Bowen
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do. — Elizabeth Bowen