There isn’t much to say. I haven’t been at all deedy.
About 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.
More quotes from Ivy Compton-Burnett
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.
English writer (1884-1969)
There is more difference within the sexes than between them.
English writer (1884-1969)
There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.
English writer (1884-1969)
There isn’t much to say. I haven’t been at all deedy.
English writer (1884-1969)
A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.
English writer (1884-1969)
My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.
English writer (1884-1969)
People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.
English writer (1884-1969)
At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished.
English writer (1884-1969)
Well, of course, people are only human… But it really does not seem much for them to be.
English writer (1884-1969)