Ivy Compton-Burnett Quotes - Page 3

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• I wonder the human race has been so fond of migrations, when the young take so hardly to traveling.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Travel, Race, Migration

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (1972). “Parents and children”

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• Duty is seldom liked either by the doer or the object ... And why should it be? It is not often of advantage to either.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Doers, Advantage, Should

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (2011). “A Heritage and its History”, p.125, A&C Black

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• I never agree with the compliments paid to it. It 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-Burnett

  Healing, Doe, Sometimes

  "Darkness and Day". Book by Ivy Compton-Burnett, 1974.

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• We do not discuss the members of our family to their faces.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Family, Faces, Members

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (1972). “A house and its head”

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• Parents have too little respect for their children, just as the children have too much for the parents.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Children, Parent, Littles

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (2011). “Two Worlds and Their Ways”, p.144, A&C Black

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• Well, Buttermere, this is a day that is good to live and breathe in, that makes a man feel in his prime. Standing here in front of my house, I feel as young as when I moved into it thirty years ago, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-nine. What aged man would you take me to be, as I step as it were casually into your view?

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Book, Men, Views

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (2011). “Men and Wives”, p.2, A&C Black

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• I think I feel on the whole that something's there trying to get out ... It's sort of trying to get out and wants help.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Thinking, Trying, Want

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• If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward me.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Children, Parent, Would Be

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (2011). “Two Worlds and Their Ways”, p.184, A&C Black

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