Over 40,000 Famous Quotes Sorted By Topic and Author

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
Topic: Admiration
Author: Elizabeth Bowen
It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.
Author: Elizabeth Bowen
It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.
Topic: Emotion
Author: Elizabeth Bowen
The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.
Topic: Existence
Author: Elizabeth Bowen
Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
Topic: Fate
Author: Elizabeth Bowen
Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
Author: Elizabeth Bowen
Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.
Topic: Language
Author: Elizabeth Bowen
Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.
Topic: Language
Author: Elizabeth Bowen
Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
Author: Elizabeth Bowen
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.
Author: Elizabeth Bowen
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
Topic: Love
Author: Elizabeth Bowen
The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.
Topic: Memory
Author: Elizabeth Bowen
No object is mysterious. The mystery is in your eye.
Topic: Mystery
Author: Elizabeth Bowen
Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.
Topic: Negativity
Author: Elizabeth Bowen
The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.
Topic: Photography
Author: Elizabeth Bowen
Autumn arrives in the early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
Topic: Seasons
Author: Elizabeth Bowen
1 |