Bowen

Famous quotes containing the word bowen:

“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)

“Sport and death are the two great socializing factors in Ireland ...”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)

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