9 Quotes & Sayings By Ivy Comptonburnett

Ivy Compton-Burnett is a novelist whose books have been translated into twenty-six languages. She has written over thirty novels, including three series: the Ivy James trilogy (The Sacred Sinner, The Dark House, and The Innocent Wife), the Pargeter trilogy (The Lost Father, The Lady of Bloomsbury Street, and A Loving Heart), and the Brookleigh trilogy (The King's Pardon, Green Darkness, and The Orchard of Tears). Her novel Afterward won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1981; her novel Promise Half won the Whitbread Award for best novel of 1995; her novel The Return was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2001; she also won the Prix Femina for her short story The Best of All Possible Worlds. Miss Compton-Burnett was twice nominated for the Booker Prize Read more

As well as writing novels, she wrote numerous other works including biographies of George Eliot and Charlotte Brontë.

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As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. And as I think a plot desirable and almost necessary, I have this extra grudge against real life. But I think there are signs that strange things happen, though they do not emerge Ivy ComptonBurnett
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There is more difference within the sexes than between them. Ivy ComptonBurnett
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We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and truly laid. Ivy ComptonBurnett
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Real charity and a real ability never to condemn-the one real virtue-is so often the result of a waking experience that gives a glimpse of what lies beneath things. Ivy ComptonBurnett
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It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests. Ivy ComptonBurnett
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Real life seems to have no plots. Ivy ComptonBurnett
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There is nothing like living together for blinding people to each other. Ivy ComptonBurnett
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There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other. Ivy ComptonBurnett