Famous Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

  • Karen, her elbows folded on the deck-rail, wanted to share with someone her pleasure in being alone: this is the paradox of any happy solitude. – Elizabeth Bowen

    Karen, her elbows folded on the deck-rail, wanted to share with someone her pleasure in being alone: this is the paradox of any happy solitude.– Elizabeth Bowen

  • Livvy noted there seemed some communal feeling between the married: any wife could be faintly rude to anyone else’s husband. – Elizabeth Bowen

    Livvy noted there seemed some communal feeling between the married: any wife could be faintly rude to anyone else’s husband.– Elizabeth Bowen