Enid Bagnold
6 quotes
Biography
Enid Algerine Bagnold, Lady Jones, was a British writer and playwright best known for the 1935 story National Velvet.
"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."
"A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again."
"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."
"When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much."
"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."
"Judges don't age time decorates them."