Almost everyone admits to hunger during the Opera.... Hunger is so exalting that during a last act you practically levitate.
Elizabeth BowenIntimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.
Elizabeth BowenThe Irish landowner, partly from laziness but also from an indifferent delicacy, does not interfere in the lives of the people round. Sport and death are the two great socializing factors in Ireland, but these cannot operate the whole time: on the whole, the landowner leaves his tenants and work-people to make their own mistakes, while he makes his.
Elizabeth Bowen