Bowen

Famous quotes containing the word bowen:

“Forty years on, when afar and asunder Parted are those who are singing today.”
—E.E. Bowen (1836–1901)

“No one of the characters in my novels has originated, so far as I know, in real life. If anything, the contrary was the case: persons playing a part in my life—the first twenty years of it—had about them something semi-fictitious.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)

“There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.”
—Catherine Drinker Bowen (1897–1973)