“It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.”
Source: Elders and Betters
Filter quotes by topic
Famous Ivy Compton-Burnett Quotes
“some people always have a touch of youth about them.”
Source: A Family and a Fortune
“We none of us talk to people as we do behind their backs.”
Source: A Heritage and its History
“People have never lost what they think they have.”
Source: Parents and children
“I am ill at ease with people whose lives are an open book.”
Source: Parents and children
“Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.”
Source: Mother and Son
“People's weaker side is not necessarily their truer self.”
Source: A Family and a Fortune
“To young people the future is still long.”
Source: A Heritage and its History
Source: A Family and a Fortune
“People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.”
“There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.”
“Well, of course, people are only human... But it really does not seem much for them to be.”
“There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.”
Source: Mother and Son