Best 27 quotes of Enid Bagnold on MyQuotes

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

After forty years of marriage we still stood with broken swords in our hands.

An only child is never twelve.

But I had been in love pretty often and I didn't think it stood the wear and tear.

Dead news like dead love has no phoenix in its ashes.

If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn't happen you are only keeping an animal.

if death becomes cheap it is the watcher, not the dying, who is poisoned.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Isn't the fear of pain next brother to pain itself?

It's not till sex has died out between a man and a woman that they can really love. And now I mean affection. Now I mean to be fond of (as one is fond of oneself) --to hope, to be disappointed, to live inside the other heart.

It's not till sex has died out between a man and a woman that they can really love. And now I mean affection. Now I mean to be fond of (as one is fond of oneself) -to hope, to be disappointed, to live inside the other heart. When I look back on the pain of sex, the love like a wild fox so ready to bite, the antagonism that sits like a twin beside love, and contrast it with affection, so deeply unrepeatable, of two people who have lived a life together (and of whom one must die) it's the affection I find richer. It's that I would have again. Not all those doubtful rainbow colors.

Judges don't age. Time decorates them.

Let this serve as an axiom to every lover: A woman who refuses lunch refuses everything.

Pity is exhaustible. What a terrible discovery!

One's palate is reborn every morning!

Sex -- the great inequality, the great miscalculator, the great Irritator.

The dangerous thing about hate is that it seems so reasonable.

The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age - what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff.

The Press blew, the public stared, hands flew out like a million little fishes after bread.

There may be wonder in money, but, dear God, there is money in wonder.

The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.

When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.

Why do birds sing in the morning? It's the triumphant shout: 'We got through another night!'

You will be old-fashioned one day. It's more shocking than getting old.

And now, finished with that puzzling mixture of insane intimacy and isolation which is notoriety, Velvet was able to get on quietly to her next adventures.

In a strange way', she thought, 'these absences suit my nature though not my heart. I love him, I miss him, but I have time to put on my humanity again.

It was March. The days of March creeping gustily on like something that man couldn't hinder and God wouldn't hurry.