It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets. — Elizabeth Bowen
Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought. — Elizabeth Bowen
Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one’s outlook; it only confirms one’s idea that one is unique. — Elizabeth Bowen
The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it. — Elizabeth Bowen
That is partly why women marry – to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things. — Elizabeth Bowen
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. — Elizabeth Bowen
The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written. — Elizabeth Bowen
The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet – when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round. — Elizabeth Bowen
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. — Elizabeth Bowen
There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone. — Elizabeth Bowen