Olivia Manning
British writer and poet (1908–1980)
Olivia Mary Manning (2 March 1908 – 23 July 1980) was a British novelist, poet, writer, and reviewer.
Quotes
edit- 'She’s just a typical bourgeois reactionary.’ ‘You mean, her prejudices are different from yours.'
- Fortunes of War: The Balkan Trilogy, book 1: The Great Fortune, 1960.
- An age of chivalry as outmoded as honour, as obsolete as truth.
- Fortunes of War: The Balkan Trilogy, book 2: The Spoilt City, 1962.
- War meant a perpetual postponement of life, yet one did not cease to grow old.
- Fortunes of War: The Balkan Trilogy, book 3: Friends and Heroes, 1965.
- This was a world in which only the ignorant could be happy.
- Fortunes of War: The Balkan Trilogy, book 3: Friends and Heroes, 1965.
- Ignorance breeds fear. Tell people the truth. Trust them to keep their heads.
- Fortunes of War: The Levant Trilogy, book 1: The Danger Tree, Atheneum, 1978.
