Ivy Compton-Burnett - People Quotes

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There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.

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It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.

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People's weaker side is not necessarily their truer self.

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Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past. And it is not a course to be wished for them.

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You should not want to know the things in people's minds. If you were meant to hear them, they would be said.

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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.

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'She still seems to me in her own way a person born to command,' said Luce... 'I wonder if anyone is born to obey,' said Isabel. 'That may be why people command rather badly, that they have no suitable material to work on.'

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People don't resent having nothing nearly as much as too little.

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That is the worst of kindness; people take advantage of it.

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I am ill at ease with people whose lives are an open book.

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"Well, of course, people are only human," said Dudley to his brother, as they walked to the house behind the women. "But it really does not seem much for them to be."

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When I die, people will say it is the best thing for me. It is because they know it is the worst. They want to avoid the feeling of pity. As though they were the people most concerned!

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Some people always have a touch of youth about them.

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There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.

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We none of us talk to people as we do behind their backs.

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Most of the pleasure of making a book would go if it held nothing to be shared by other people. I would write for a few dozen people, and sometimes it seems that I do so, but I would not write for no-one.

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