Four Plays
A source page for quotes linked to Enid Bagnold.
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Source: National Velvet
Source: National Velvet
“Sex -- the great inequality, the great miscalculator, the great Irritator.”
“You will be old-fashioned one day. It's more shocking than getting old.”
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“One never knows when one is old for certain.”
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“From birth to death we are alone.”
Source: A Diary Without Dates
“The Press blew, the public stared, hands flew out like a million little fishes after bread.”
Source: National Velvet
“There may be wonder in money, but, dear God, there is money in wonder.”
Source: National Velvet
“An only child is never twelve.”
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“Let this serve as an axiom to every lover: A woman who refuses lunch refuses everything.”
Source: A Diary Without Dates
“if death becomes cheap it is the watcher, not the dying, who is poisoned.”
Source: A Diary Without Dates
“One's palate is reborn every morning!”
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“Isn't the fear of pain next brother to pain itself?”
Source: A Diary Without Dates
“The dangerous thing about hate is that it seems so reasonable.”
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“Dead news like dead love has no phoenix in its ashes.”
Source: National Velvet
“But I had been in love pretty often and I didn't think it stood the wear and tear.”
“After forty years of marriage we still stood with broken swords in our hands.”
“Marriage. The beginning and the end are wonderful. But the middle part is hell.”
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“Things come suitable to the time.”
Source: National Velvet
“One can lie, but truth is more interesting.”
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“Before you fall asleep everyday, say something positive to yourself.”
“As for death, one gets used to it, even if it is only other people is death you get used to.”
“I shall continue to explore-the astonishment of living.”
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“Judges don't age. Time decorates them.”
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“I don't like people," said Velvet. "... I only like horses.”
“The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.”
“Why do birds sing in the morning? It's the triumphant shout: 'We got through another night!'”
“Pity is exhaustible. What a terrible discovery!”
Source: A Diary Without Dates