Enid Bagnold famous quotes

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
-- Enid Bagnold

#Daughter #Fathers Day #Baby

Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to everything. ... It's the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it's a cactus.
-- Enid Bagnold

#Flower #Writing #Oddities

I don't like people," said Velvet. "... I only like horses.
-- Enid Bagnold

#Horse #People #Velvet

When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.
-- Enid Bagnold

#Men #Doctors #Years

The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.
-- Enid Bagnold

#Art #Names #Theatre

if death becomes cheap it is the watcher, not the dying, who is poisoned.
-- Enid Bagnold

#Death #War #Dying

Isn't the fear of pain next brother to pain itself?
-- Enid Bagnold

#Brother #Fear #Pain

Let this serve as an axiom to every lover: A woman who refuses lunch refuses everything.
-- Enid Bagnold

#Lunch #Dating #Lovers

An only child is never twelve.
-- Enid Bagnold

#Children #Twelve #Only Child

The dangerous thing about hate is that it seems so reasonable.
-- Enid Bagnold

#Hate #Dangerous

One's palate is reborn every morning!
-- Enid Bagnold

#Morning #Eating #Palate

Dead news like dead love has no phoenix in its ashes.
-- Enid Bagnold

#Phoenix #News #Publicity

But I had been in love pretty often and I didn't think it stood the wear and tear.
-- Enid Bagnold

#Thinking #Tears

After forty years of marriage we still stood with broken swords in our hands.
-- Enid Bagnold

#Marriage #Hands #Years

Marriage. The beginning and the end are wonderful. But the middle part is hell.
-- Enid Bagnold

#Marriage #Wonderful #Hell

Things come suitable to the time.
-- Enid Bagnold

#Timing

One can lie, but truth is more interesting.
-- Enid Bagnold

#Truth #Lying #Interesting

I am not a born writer, but I was born a writer.
-- Enid Bagnold

#Born

There may be wonder in money, but, dear God, there is money in wonder.
-- Enid Bagnold

#Money #May #Dear God

The Press blew, the public stared, hands flew out like a million little fishes after bread.
-- Enid Bagnold

#Hands #Littles #Bread

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.
-- Enid Bagnold

#Inspirational #Marriage #Wedding

As for death, one gets used to it, even if it is only other people is death you get used to.
-- Enid Bagnold

#Death #People #Used

The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age - what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff.
-- Enid Bagnold

#Flirty #People #Age

I shall continue to explore-the astonishment of living.
-- Enid Bagnold

#Astonishment #Aging

Judges don't age. Time decorates them.
-- Enid Bagnold

#Judging #Age

If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn't happen you are only keeping an animal.
-- Enid Bagnold

#God #Dog #Animal

It's not till sex has died out between a man and a woman that they can really love. And now I mean affection. Now I mean to be fond of (as one is fond of oneself) -to hope, to be disappointed, to live inside the other heart. When I look back on the pain of sex, the love like a wild fox so ready to bite, the antagonism that sits like a twin beside love, and contrast it with affection, so deeply unrepeatable, of two people who have lived a life together (and of whom one must die) it's the affection I find richer. It's that I would have again. Not all those doubtful rainbow colors.
-- Enid Bagnold

#Love #Sex #Pain

Why do birds sing in the morning? It's the triumphant shout: 'We got through another night!'
-- Enid Bagnold

#Morning #Night #Bird

Pity is exhaustible. What a terrible discovery!
-- Enid Bagnold

#Discovery #Pity #Terrible

Sex -- the great inequality, the great miscalculator, the great Irritator.
-- Enid Bagnold

#Sex #Inequality

You will be old-fashioned one day. It's more shocking than getting old.
-- Enid Bagnold

#Age #One Day #Old Fashioned

One never knows when one is old for certain.
-- Enid Bagnold

#Age #Certain

From birth to death we are alone ...
-- Enid Bagnold

#Birth

It's not till sex has died out between a man and a woman that they can really love. And now I mean affection. Now I mean to be fond of (as one is fond of oneself) --to hope, to be disappointed, to live inside the other heart.
-- Enid Bagnold

#Sex #Heart #Mean