Quotes of Enid Bagnold - somelinesforyou

“ Judges don't age. Time decorates them. ”

- Enid Bagnold

“ 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 the wedding ring. ”

- Enid Bagnold

“ 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

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

- 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

“ 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 it's the affection I find richer. It's that I would have again. Not all those doubtful rainbow colors. ”

- Enid Bagnold

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

- Enid Bagnold

“ 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

“ 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 it's the affection I find richer. It's that I would have again. Not all those doubtful rainbow colors. ”

- Enid Bagnold

“ Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to everything. To "Why am I here?" To uselessness. It's the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it's a cactus. ”

- Enid Bagnold

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

- Enid Bagnold

“ Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to everything. To "Why am I here?" To uselessness. It's the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it's a cactus. ”

- Enid Bagnold

“ 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 the wedding ring. ”

- 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

“ 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 the wedding ring. ”

- 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 it's the affection I find richer. It's that I would have again. Not all those doubtful rainbow colors. ”

- Enid Bagnold

“ Sex — the great inequality, the great miscalculator, the great Irritator. ”

- Enid Bagnold

“ Sex — the great inequality, the great miscalculator, the great Irritator. ”

- Enid Bagnold

“ Judges don't age. Time decorates them. ”

- Enid Bagnold

“ Judges don't age. Time decorates them. ”

- Enid Bagnold

“ Sex — the great inequality, the great miscalculator, the great Irritator. ”

- Enid Bagnold

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

- 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

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

- 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

“ 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 it's the affection I find richer. It's that I would have again. Not all those doubtful rainbow colors. ”

- 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 it's the affection I find richer. It's that I would have again. Not all those doubtful rainbow colors. ”

- Enid Bagnold

“ Judges don't age. Time decorates them. ”

- Enid Bagnold

“ 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

“ 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
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