Ivy Compton-Burnett Quotes

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

"Well, of course, people are only human... But it really does not seem much for them to be."
- Ivy Compton-Burnett
(Related: People)

"Time 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."
- Ivy Compton-Burnett
(Related: Time, Healing)

"There is more difference within the sexes than between them."
- Ivy Compton-Burnett
(Related: Difference, Sexes)

"My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me."
- Ivy Compton-Burnett
(Related: Giving, Youth)

"A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit."
- Ivy Compton-Burnett
(Related: Change, Credit, Feeling)

"People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own."
- Ivy Compton-Burnett
(Related: Power, People)

"There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other."
- Ivy Compton-Burnett
(Related: People, Living, Nothing)