List of Ivy Compton-Burnett Quotes

Truth Is So Impossible. Something Has To Be Done For It.

Anyone Who Picks Up A Compton-burnett Finds It Very Hard Not To Put It Down.

If I Were Not A Child With My Parents, They Would Be More Unloving Toward Me.

It Is Not For Us To Hold Ourselves Above The Position Of Grateful People. We Have To Be Able To Accept. Anything Else Shows An Unwillingness To Grant Someone Else The Superior Place.

Dear, Dear, The Miniature World Of The Family! All The Emotions Of Mankind Seem To Find A Place In It.

Charm Should Be On The Surface. It Has No Hidden Use.

I Wonder The Human Race Has Been So Fond Of Migrations, When The Young Take So Hardly To Traveling.

Parents Have Too Little Respect For Their Children, Just As The Children Have Too Much For The Parents.

Duty Is Seldom Liked Either By The Doer Or The Object ... And Why Should It Be? It Is Not Often Of Advantage To Either.

We Do Not Discuss The Members Of Our Family To Their Faces.

Real Charity And Real Ability Never To Condemn-the One Real Virtue-is So Often The Result Of A Waking Experience That Gives A Glimpse Of What Lies Beneath Things.

Well, Buttermere, This Is A Day That Is Good To Live And Breathe In, That Makes A Man Feel In His Prime. Standing Here In Front Of My House, I Feel As Young As When I Moved Into It Thirty Years Ago, In The Year Eighteen Hundred And Fifty-nine. What Aged Man Would You Take Me To Be, As I Step As It Were Casually Into Your View?