Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible. — Elizabeth Bowen
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Elizabeth Bowen : Irish Novelist
Born: June 7, 1899
Died: February 22, 1973
There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of …
I am confident that nobody… will accuse me of selfishness …
Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there …
Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak. Madam…
When you’re told to go brief a United States senator on a co…
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each …
There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of …
I am confident that nobody… will accuse me of selfishness …
Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there …
Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak. Madam…
When you’re told to go brief a United States senator on a co…
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each …
In our brief national history we have shot four of our presi…
There is a brief moment when all there is in a man’s mind an…
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid ha…
Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as …
Man is never always happy, and very often only a brief perio…
I filed a brief as a friend of the court in the U. of Michig…
I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the o…
Self-pity, a dominant characteristic of sociopaths, is also …
The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of l…
The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning insta…
My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the…
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmi…
It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we…
Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern w…
