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Ivy Compton-Burnett Quotes

Real charity and a 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.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Real charity and a 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.

Tags: helping, people

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

Ivy Compton-Burnett

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

Tags: change

About Author
Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett, (; 5 June 1884 – 27 August 1969) was an English novelist, published in the original editions as I. Compton-Burnett. She was awarded the 1955 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for her novel Mother and Son. Her works consist mainly of dialogue and focus on family life among the late Victorian or Edwardian upper middle class.

As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. And as I think a plot desirable and almost necessary, I have this extra grudge against real life. But I think there...

Ivy Compton-Burnett

As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. And as I think a plot desirable and almost necessary, I have this extra grudge against real life. But I think there...

Tags: fiction

We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and truly laid.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and truly laid.

Tags: happiness

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

Ivy Compton-Burnett

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

Tags: helping, people

Real life seems to have no plots.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Real life seems to have no plots.

Tags: life

There is nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

There is nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.

Tags: marriage

There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

Tags: men, women

There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.

Tags: men, women