Quotes by Enid Bagnold

About Enid Bagnold:

Enid Algerine Bagnold, Lady Jones was a British author and playwright, known for the 1935 story National Velvet.
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The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age - what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff.

Enid Bagnold

Judges don't age; time decorates them.

Enid Bagnold

The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.

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And now, finished with that puzzling mixture of insane intimacy and isolation which is notoriety, Velvet was able to get on quietly to her next adventures.

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If I had my life over again[, ] I'd have thought more about words. And thought about them earlier.

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In a strange way', she thought, 'these absences suit my nature though not my heart. I love him, I miss him, but I have time to put on my humanity again.

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Suddenly, as they walked with their buckets, it was not the child in each face that she sought, but the Wonder that had raised itself on to its two feet, that had learnt to walk, to run, that had spoken, that had got in touch with life under her hand...

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The children seemed to cast their Precursors like shadows about the house, sometimes tangibly, in the sound of a voice, sometimes by suggestion, because it was striking the hour for their return from a walk, sometimes mysteriously, because inside the...

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A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

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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.

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When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.

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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of t...

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Author Bio

  • NameEnid Bagnold
  • DescriptionEnglish dramatist, playwright, memoirist
  • BornOctober 27, 1889
  • DiedMarch 31, 1981
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionNovelist; Playwright
  • AwardsCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire