Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The Press blew, the public stared, hands flew out like a million little fishes after bread.
Enid Bagnold
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Enid Bagnold
Age: 91 †
Born: 1889
Born: October 27
Died: 1981
Died: March 31
Author
Novelist
Playwright
Writer
Lady Jones
Enid Algerine
Lady Jones
Millions
Flew
Public
Journalism
Hands
Fishes
Littles
Newspapers
Little
Presses
Like
Press
Bread
Blew
Million
Stared
More quotes by Enid Bagnold
You will be old-fashioned one day. It's more shocking than getting old.
Enid Bagnold
An only child is never twelve.
Enid Bagnold
Things come suitable to the time.
Enid Bagnold
It's not till sex has died out between a man and a woman that they can really love. And now I mean affection. Now I mean to be fond of (as one is fond of oneself) --to hope, to be disappointed, to live inside the other heart.
Enid Bagnold
If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn't happen you are only keeping an animal.
Enid Bagnold
I don't like people, said Velvet. ... I only like horses.
Enid Bagnold
Sex -- the great inequality, the great miscalculator, the great Irritator.
Enid Bagnold
Isn't the fear of pain next brother to pain itself?
Enid Bagnold
After forty years of marriage we still stood with broken swords in our hands.
Enid Bagnold
The dangerous thing about hate is that it seems so reasonable.
Enid Bagnold
Let this serve as an axiom to every lover: A woman who refuses lunch refuses everything.
Enid Bagnold
When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.
Enid Bagnold
Marriage. The beginning and the end are wonderful. But the middle part is hell.
Enid Bagnold
The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.
Enid Bagnold
I am not a born writer, but I was born a writer.
Enid Bagnold
One can lie, but truth is more interesting.
Enid Bagnold
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
Enid Bagnold
