Enid Bagnold Quotations

Dead news like dead love has no phoenix in its ashes.

Judges don't age. Time decorates them.

But I had been in love pretty often and I didn't think it stood the wear and tear.

After forty years of marriage we still stood with broken swords in our hands.

Marriage. The beginning and the end are wonderful. But the middle part is hell.

Things come suitable to the time.

One can lie, but truth is more interesting.

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.

You will be old-fashioned one day. It's more shocking than getting old.

Sex -- the great inequality, the great miscalculator, the great Irritator.