Best 12 quotes of Jane Bowles on MyQuotes

A guardian angel comes when you are very young, and gives you special dispensation. From what? From the world. Yours might be luck. Mine is money.

Houses! I hate houses. I like public places. Houses break your heart.

I don't judge people by their bodies. Even when I was a young girl I liked men for their minds. Now that I'm middle-aged I see how right I was.

I think that anything you feel strange or nervous about, you weren't cut out to do.

It may be true that the government that governs best governs least Unfortunately, the same is also true of the government that governs worst.

Sisterly love is one of the few boons in this life.

Sometimes when a man gets older he has a revelation and wants awfully bad to get back to the place where he left his life, but he can't get to that place- not often.

the face of victory often resembles the face of defeat.

The farther a man follows the rainbow, the harder it is for him to get back to the life which he left starving like an old dog.

Victory fades so quickly that it is scarcely apparent and it is always the face of defeat that we are able to see.

Voting is one of the few things where boycotting in protest clearly makes the problem worse rather than better.

Even then she wore the look of certain fanatics who think of themselves as leaders without once having gained the respect of a single human being.