Top 25 Quotes by Ivy Compton-Burnett of 58 - Page 3

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.

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.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Grateful, People, Able

Ivy Compton-Burnett (2011). “A Family and a Fortune”, p.104, A&C Black

Parents have too little respect for their children, just as the children have too much for the parents.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Children, Parent, Littles

Ivy Compton-Burnett (2011). “Two Worlds and Their Ways”, p.144, A&C Black

Duty is seldom liked either by the doer or the object ... And why should it be? It is not often of advantage to either.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Doers, Advantage, Should

Ivy Compton-Burnett (2011). “A Heritage and its History”, p.125, A&C Black

Dear, dear, the miniature world of the family! All the emotions of mankind seem to find a place in it.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Family, World, Emotion

Ivy Compton-Burnett (1972). “Parents and children”

Truth is so impossible. Something has to be done for it.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Truth, Done, Impossible

Ivy Compton-Burnett (1972). “Darkness and day”

I wonder the human race has been so fond of migrations, when the young take so hardly to traveling.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Travel, Race, Migration

Ivy Compton-Burnett (1972). “Parents and children”

I never agree with the compliments paid to it. It 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

Healing, Doe, Sometimes

"Darkness and Day". Book by Ivy Compton-Burnett, 1974.