Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett: Quotes

• Appearance

  Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth. . . . But we seem to have no other.Ivy Compton-Burnett: Manservant and Maidservant

• Men and Women

  There is more difference within the sexes than between them.Ivy Compton-Burnett: Mother and Son

• Obedience

   “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.”Ivy Compton-Burnett: Parents and Children