Enid Bagnold Quotes

• The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.

  Enid Bagnold

  Topics in Compromise

  Tags in Theater, Sweeps

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hit, Pleasure

• Judges don’t age; time decorates them.

  Enid Bagnold

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Juries And Judges, Time

• 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

  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Shares, Dogs

• As for death one gets used to it, even if it’s only other people’s death you get used to.

  Enid Bagnold

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Used

• When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.

  Enid Bagnold

  Tags in Medical

• 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

  Topics in Wedding

  Tags in Marriage

• A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

  Enid Bagnold

  Topics in Father

  Tags in Dad

Enid Bagnold (8)

Birth:	27th October, 1889
Death:	31st March, 1981
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Novelist, Playwright

About

Enid Bagnold was born in Rochester, Kent, England. She was a British novelist and playwright, known for the 1935 story National Velvet. She wrote about her hospital experiences in A Diary Without Dates, and about her experiences as a driver in The Happy Foreigner. Two quite different novels are The Squire, which conveys the mood of expectancy in a household awaiting the birth of a child, and The Loved and Envied, a study of a woman facing the approach of old age. As a playwright, she achieved great success with The Chalk Garden; a motion-picture version was produced in 1964. Her other stage works include Four Plays and A Matter of Gravity.

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