Manservant and Maidservant Quotes

“Speaking of things robs them of half their terrors.”
― Ivy Compton-Burnett, Manservant and Maidservant

“Things only ferment and fester in the dark.”
― Ivy Compton-Burnett, Manservant and Maidservant

“I suppose George is too old to take things to eat, and no one is too old to take a life. People can only be too young for it. When they are young enough, they do not pay the penalty, as though they cannot really have done it.”
― Ivy Compton-Burnett, Manservant and Maidservant

“What they need is to become children again. They have been forced too far forward by this suspicion of something beyond them.”
― Ivy Compton-Burnett, Manservant and Maidservant

“I may have clouded people’s lives, but I have never tried to destroy them. I have never grudged a fellow being breath. And this is done to me by creatures who would be called my innocent children.”
― Ivy Compton-Burnett, Manservant and Maidservant