Ivy Compton-Burnett Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Ivy Compton-Burnett:

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/ivy-compton-burnett-quotes/#dada233f

People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.
~Ivy Compton-Burnett


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/ivy-compton-burnett-quotes/#04a50275

There is more difference within the sexes than between them.
~Ivy Compton-Burnett


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/ivy-compton-burnett-quotes/#70a25dac

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/ivy-compton-burnett-quotes/#0b988121

A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.
~Ivy Compton-Burnett


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/ivy-compton-burnett-quotes/#10ead7cb

My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.
~Ivy Compton-Burnett


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/ivy-compton-burnett-quotes/#c12e8551

There isn't much to say. I haven't been at all deedy.
~Ivy Compton-Burnett


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/ivy-compton-burnett-quotes/#0a2bd65f

Well, of course, people are only human... But it really does not seem much for them to be.
~Ivy Compton-Burnett


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/ivy-compton-burnett-quotes/#1150313e

There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.
~Ivy Compton-Burnett


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/ivy-compton-burnett-quotes/#23333770

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