Elizabeth Bowen

"Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies."

"There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone."

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

"Education is not so important as people think."

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

"Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope it is impossible."