Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.

- Ivy Compton-Burnett

My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.

- Ivy Compton-Burnett

People have never lost what they think they have.

- Ivy Compton-Burnett

There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.

- Ivy Compton-Burnett

it is in our minds that we live much of our life.

- Ivy Compton-Burnett

There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.

- Ivy Compton-Burnett

There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

- Ivy Compton-Burnett

A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life.

- Ivy Compton-Burnett

Real life seems to have no plots.

- Ivy Compton-Burnett