Quotes by Ivy Compton-Burnett

Ivy Compton-Burnett

A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.

Doe

Feelings

Leopards

A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life.

Persons

Selfishness

Unselfish

Anyone who picks up a Compton-Burnett finds it very hard not to put it down.

Compton

Hard

Picks

Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth,’ said his cousin. ‘But we seem to have no other.

Clue

Cousin

Happiness

At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished.

Certain

Jam

Jars

Dear, dear, the miniature world of the family! All the emotions of mankind seem to find a place in it.

Emotion

Family

World

I never agree with the compliments paid to it. It is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary.

Doe

Healing

Sometimes

I never know why self-sacrifice is noble. Why is it better to sacrifice oneself than someone else?

Noble

Sacrifice

Self

If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward me.

Children

Parent

Would Be

It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.

Interest

People

Thinking

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Book

Certain

Children

Clue

Compton

Concern

Cousin

Doe

Emotion

Exaggeration

Faces

Family

Feelings

Giving

Happiness

Hard

Healing

Interest

Jam

Jars

Leopards

Loss

Lying

Matter

Members

Noble

Novelists

Originals

Parent

Past

People

Persons

Picks

Real

Sacrifice

Self

Self-importance

Selfishness

Sometimes

Sorrow

Thinking

Unselfish

Way

Weakness

World

Would Be

Writing

Youth

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Quotes by Ivy Compton-Burnett

Ivy Compton-Burnett

A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.

A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life.

Anyone who picks up a Compton-Burnett finds it very hard not to put it down.

Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth,’ said his cousin. ‘But we seem to have no other.

At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished.

Dear, dear, the miniature world of the family! All the emotions of mankind seem to find a place in it.

I never agree with the compliments paid to it. It is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary.

I never know why self-sacrifice is noble. Why is it better to sacrifice oneself than someone else?

If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward me.

It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.

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