Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett Quotes
1892 - 1969
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And people in life hardly seem definite enough to appear in print.
Theyare not good or bad enough, or clever or stupid
enough, or comic or pitiful enough.
1945 Orion, no.1,'A Conversation'. 
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More Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett Quotes
'Well, of course, people are only human,'said Dudley to his brother, as they walked to the house behind the women.'But it really does not seem much for them to be.'
Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett— 1939 A Family and a Fortune, ch.2.
People don't resent having nothing nearlyas much as too little.
Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett— 1939 A Family and a Fortune, ch.4.
It will be a beautiful family talk, mean and worried and full of sorrow and spite and excitement. I cannot be asked to miss it in my weak state. I should only fret.
Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett— 1939 A Family and a Fortune, ch.10.
As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots.
Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett— 1945 Orion, no.1,'A Conversation'.
There is more difference within the sexes than between them.
Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett— 1955 Mother and Son, ch.10.
When I die people will say it is the best thing for me. It is because they know it is the worst. They want to avoid the feeling of pity.
Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett— 1961The Mighty and Their Fall, ch.4.
There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.
Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett— 1961The Mighty and Their Fall, ch.7.
There's not much to say. I haven't been at all deedy.
Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett— 1969 When asked about her life. In The Times, 30 Aug.
We must use words as theyare used, or stand aside from life.
Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett— 1955 Mother and Son, ch.9.
