Solitary and farouche people don't have relationships; they are quite unrelatable.

- Elizabeth Bowen

Silences can be as different as sounds.

- Elizabeth Bowen

somehow at parties at which one stays standing up one seems to require to be more concentratedly intelligent than one does at those at which one can …

- Elizabeth Bowen

The novel does not simply recount experience, it adds to experience.

- Elizabeth Bowen

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

- Elizabeth Bowen

We are minor in everything but our passions.

- Elizabeth Bowen

Spoilt pleasure is a sad, unseemly thing; you can only bury it.

- Elizabeth Bowen

nothing is more restful than conformity.

- Elizabeth Bowen

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

- Elizabeth Bowen