Elizabeth Hardwick may refer to:
- Bess of Hardwick (1527–1608), Elizabethan courtier
- Elizabeth Hardwick (writer) (1916–2007), American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer
Famous quotes containing the words elizabeth hardwick, elizabeth and/or hardwick:
“Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose.... In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires....”
—Elizabeth Hardwick (b. 1916)
“When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.”
—Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1837–1915)
“The fifties—they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy.”
—Elizabeth Hardwick (b. 1916)