Top 37 Quotes by Elizabeth Bowen

The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better.

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.

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

Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.

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

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

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

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.

Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.