Elizabeth Bowen

“Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.”

“Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.”

“If they should only be ill,' she said, 'there would be so many little things we could do for them. It does seem in a kind of a way an opportunity. I often think it is only when a man is ill that he understands what a woman means in his life.”

“Education is not so important as people think.”

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