Georg Buchner
German dramatist and writer of poetry and prose
About the Ivy Compton-Burnett
Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett, was an English novelist, published in the original editions as I. Compton-Burnett. She was awarded the 1955 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for her novel Mother and Son. Her works consist mainly of dialogue and focus on family life among the late Victorian or Edwardian upper middle class.
9 Quotes by Ivy Compton-Burnett
- 1.
Time is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary.
Ivy Compton-BurnettEnglish writer (1884-1969)
- 2.
There is more difference within the sexes than between them.
Ivy Compton-BurnettEnglish writer (1884-1969)
- 3.
There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.
Ivy Compton-BurnettEnglish writer (1884-1969)
- 4.
There isn’t much to say. I haven’t been at all deedy.
Ivy Compton-BurnettEnglish writer (1884-1969)
- 5.
A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.
Ivy Compton-BurnettEnglish writer (1884-1969)
- 6.
My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.
Ivy Compton-BurnettEnglish writer (1884-1969)
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People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.
Ivy Compton-BurnettEnglish writer (1884-1969)
- 8.
At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished.
Ivy Compton-BurnettEnglish writer (1884-1969)
- 9.
Well, of course, people are only human… But it really does not seem much for them to be.
Ivy Compton-BurnettEnglish writer (1884-1969)