Elizabeth Bowen

If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#always #cause #life #look #way

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#feeling #illusions #live #person

Ireland is a great country to die or be married in. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#die #great #great country #ireland #married

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#internal #language #mechanical #outcome #thought

Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#does #enlarge #idea #meeting #oneself

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#mysterious #mystery #object #your

The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#better #burning #concentrate #course #effort

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#granted #greatness #taken #taken for granted #unnerved

Education is not so important as people think. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#important #people #think

We are minor in everything but our passions. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#minor #our #passions