Top 93 Enid's Quotes
#1. Ever since her obsession with Jonathan Cain, a deranged transfer student who had been at Sweet Valley for a month, Enid's life had been entirely guyless.
Francine Pascal
#2. Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great.
Enid Nemy
#4. It wasn't a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.
Enid Blyton
#5. My husband was getting his sea legs-rereading Joseph Conrad with a side order of C S Forester.
Enid Nemy
#6. By seven o'clock even the long corridor was as dim as the alley outside. No one thought of shutting the windows - I doubt whether they will shut...and the fog rolled over the sill in banks and round the open glass doors, till even the white cap of a Sister could hardly be seen as she passed.
Enid Bagnold
#7. Suddenly, as they walked with their buckets, it was not the child in each face that she sought, but the Wonder that had raised itself on to its two feet, that had learnt to walk, to run, that had spoken, that had got in touch with life under her hand.
Enid Bagnold
#8. Marriage. The beginning and the end are wonderful. But the middle part is hell.
Enid Bagnold
#9. I don't like people," said Velvet. " ... I only like horses.
Enid Bagnold
#10. He was white in bold seas, ans black in continents...
Enid Bagnold
#11. Pity is exhaustible. What a terrible discovery!
Enid Bagnold
#12. In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.
Enid Bagnold
#13. Before you fall asleep everyday, say something positive to yourself.
Enid Bagnold
#14. I was too far away to observe what color Enid Starkie's eyes were; all I remember of her is that she dressed like a matelot, walked like a scrum-half, and had an atrocious French accent.
Julian Barnes
#16. Windows are as essential to office prestige as Christmas is to retailing.
Enid Nemy
#17. We must have Christian ethics for our children, good and strong, but we must make them attractive, too, and it can be done.
Enid Blyton
#18. You're trying to escape from your difficulties, and there never is any escape from difficulties, never. They have to be faced and fought.
Enid Blyton
#19. It was such a lovely day too, and the sky and sea were so blue. They sat eating and drinking, gazing out to sea, watching the waves break into spray over the rocks beyond the old wreck.
Enid Blyton
#20. Dead news like dead love has no phoenix in its ashes.
Enid Bagnold
#21. Man is a predatory animal, and this aspect of his nature is nowhere better suited by environment than in the world of politics.
Enid Lyons
#22. The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age - what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff.
Enid Bagnold
#23. Nothing like having a bucket of cold water flung over you to make you see things as they really are!
Enid Blyton
#24. Hatred is so much easier to win than love - and so much harder to get rid of.
Enid Blyton
#25. After forty years of marriage we still stood with broken swords in our hands.
Enid Bagnold
#26. The greatest joy is the joy of discovery. Followed closely by the joy of a discovery that doesn't kill you. - Enid Healy
Seanan McGuire
#28. Well, come back and have tea with us," saidMoon-Face. "Silky's got some Pop Biscuits -andI've made some Google Buns. I don't often makethem-and I tell you they're a treat!
Enid Blyton
#29. My work in books, films and talks lies almost wholly with children, and I have very little time to give to grown-ups.
Enid Blyton
#30. When you're paid to do a job, it's better to give a few minutes more to it, than a few minutes less. That's one of the differences between doing a job honestly and doing it dishonestly! See?
Enid Blyton
#32. His eyes narrowed with scorn. I know a lot of things about you I didn't know before, Enid. I know, for instance, that you're not as pure as you'd like me to believe.
Francine Pascal
#33. One can lie, but truth is more interesting.
Enid Bagnold
#34. The madness of an autumn prairie cold front coming through ... ringing throughout the house was an alarm bell that no one but Alfred and Enid could hear directly.
Jonathan Franzen
#36. And now, finished with that puzzling mixture of insane intimacy and isolation which is notoriety, Velvet was able to get on quietly to her next adventures.
Enid Bagnold
#37. The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.
Enid Bagnold
#38. The best way to treat obstacles is to use them as stepping-stones. Laugh at them, tread on them, and let them lead you to something better.
Enid Blyton
#39. A clown needn't be the same out of the ring as he has to be when he's in it. If you look at photographs of clowns when they're just being ordinary men, they've got quite sad faces.
Enid Blyton
#40. The dangerous thing about hate is that it seems so reasonable.
Enid Bagnold
#41. Oh, I wish I lived in a caravan!' said Jimmy longingly. 'How lovely it must be to live in a house that has wheels and can go away down the lanes and through the towns, and stand still in fields at night!
Enid Blyton
#42. If death becomes cheap it is the watcher, not the dying, who is poisoned.
Enid Bagnold
#43. If I had my life over again[, ] I'd have thought more about words. And thought about them earlier.
Enid Bagnold
#44. Who wants to become a writer? And why? ... It's the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower of life, even if it's a cactus.
Enid Bagnold
#45. I am not a born writer, but I was born a writer.
Enid Bagnold
#46. The moon was coming slowly up over the hill in front of them. The countryside was bathed in light, pale and cold and silvery. Everything could be seen quite plainly, and Lotta and Jimmy thought it was just like daytime with the colours missing.
Enid Blyton
#47. Not at all,' said Moon-Face, leading them up a little lane through the
Enid Blyton
#48. I have written, probably, more books for children than any other writer, from story-books to plays, and can claim to know more about interesting children than most.
Enid Blyton
#49. Enid was a terrific person, Elizabeth thought, and absolutely not a nerd, no matter what Jessica said. With her shoulder-length brown hair and large green eyes, she was really pretty.
Francine Pascal
#50. Ambition was a dull pain, like a continually broken heart.
Enid Shomer
#51. If you can't look after something in your care, you have no right to keep it.
Enid Blyton
#52. I'm good at exploring roofs. You never know when that kind of thing comes in useful.
Enid Blyton
#53. If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn't happen you are only keeping an animal.
Enid Bagnold
#54. Remorse is a terrible thing to bear, Pam, one of the worst of all punishments in this life. To wish undone something you have done, to wish you could look back on kindness to someone you love, instead of on unkindness - that is a very terrible thing.
Enid Blyton
#55. The point is not that I don't recognise bad people when I see them - I grant you I may quite well be taken in by them - the point is that I know a good person when I see one.
Enid Blyton
#56. I really don't think you should put your hand inside the manticore, dear. You don't know where it's been. - Enid Healy
Seanan McGuire
#57. Writing for children is an art in itself, and a most interesting one.
Enid Blyton
#58. Why do birds sing in the morning? It's the triumphant shout: 'We got through another night!'
Enid Bagnold
#59. I am not really much interested in talking to adults, although I suppose practically every mother in the kingdom knows my name and my books. It's their children I love.
Enid Blyton
#60. I shall continue to explore-the astonishment of living.
Enid Bagnold
#61. One never knows when one is old for certain.
Enid Bagnold
#62. I think people make their own faces, as they grow.
Enid Blyton
#63. If one can judge from the letters that I receive, it would seem that there are many thousands of children who would like me to speak or to read to them.
Enid Blyton
#64. Leave something for someone but dont leave someone for something.
Enid Blyton
#65. There's a rainbow around every corner is a well known saying and is supposed to make negative people positive.
Enid Blyton
#66. Mothers were much too sharp. They were like dogs. Buster always sensed when anything was out of the ordinary, and so did mothers. Mothers and dogs both had a kind of second sight that made them see into people's minds and know when anything unusual was going on.
Enid Blyton
#68. after all had eaten, then Geraint, For now the wine made summer in his veins, Let his eye rove in following, or rest On Enid at her lowly handmaid-work,
Alfred Tennyson
#69. I get over a hundred letters a day from all over the world, from children and parents, and it's a wonder I ever have time to write books, let alone speak!
Enid Blyton
#70. You simply never know about people,' thought Elizabeth. 'You think because they're timid they'll always be timid, or because they're mean they'll always be mean. But they can change awfully quickly if they are treated right.
Enid Blyton
#71. Isn't the fear of pain next brother to pain itself?
Enid Bagnold
#72. The Press blew, the public stared, hands flew out like a million little fishes after bread.
Enid Bagnold
#73. There may be wonder in money, but, dear God, there is money in wonder.
Enid Bagnold
#74. It was March. The days of March creeping gustily on like something that man couldn't hinder and God wouldn't hurry.
Enid Bagnold
#75. When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.
Enid Bagnold
#76. You will be old-fashioned one day. It's more shocking than getting old.
Enid Bagnold
#77. Time doesn't really soften anything. Memories heave up, you know. Still sharp."
"Forgetting takes practice," says Enid. "You have to work at it.
Helen Humphreys
#79. She'd ride like a piece of lightning. No more weight'n a piece of lightning.
Enid Bagnold
#80. A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
Enid Bagnold
#81. In a strange way', she thought, 'these absences suit my nature though not my heart. I love him, I miss him, but I have time to put on my humanity again.
Enid Bagnold
#82. Flo hated how public an event affection inevitably became. Marrying in a church while scrutinized by dozens of people struck her as a barbaric custom.
Enid Shomer
#83. As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.
Enid Bagnold
#84. I know I feel like Gulliver sometimes, weighed down by little men. There are so many people in this house, I'm a queen bee, with every muscle dragging. I'm the heart of a cluster, black, dripping, sucking, hanging.
Enid Bagnold
#85. In the kitchen Enid dredged the Promethean meat in flour and laid it in a Westinghouse electric pan large enough to fry nine eggs in ticktacktoe formation.
Jonathan Franzen
#86. Ifemelu and Jane laughed when they discovered how similar their childhoods in Grenada and Nigeria had been, with Enid Blyton books and Anglophile teachers and fathers who worshipped the BBC World Service.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#87. But I had been in love pretty often and I didn't think it stood the wear and tear.
Enid Bagnold
#88. Sex
the great inequality, the great miscalculator, the great Irritator.
Enid Bagnold
#89. Here Mr Potts come here you little idiot!
Enid Blyton
#90. I do love the beginning of the summer hols,' said Julian. They always seem to stretch out ahead for ages and ages.'
'They go so nice and slowly at first,' said Anne, his little sister. 'Then they start to gallop.
Enid Blyton
#91. She saw herself alone, alive and doomed, strong and helpless, passing in a line of women, her mother before her, the child Lucy, behind, women walking on a temple frieze, Greek women in fluttering robes rounding a vase's girth for ever.
Enid Bagnold
#92. Let this serve as an axiom to every lover: A woman who refuses lunch refuses everything.
Enid Bagnold
#93. Another time might be easier than this one, but there's only the time you're in, thinks Enid. And it's always going to be lacking somehow. Best to spend some of your moments here on earth noticing what else is here with you instead of concentrating solely on your own misery.
Helen Humphreys
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