Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by Kay Boyle

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American novelist Kay Boyle.

Last updated on November 25, 2024.

Kay Boyle was an American novelist, short story writer, educator, and political activist. She was a Guggenheim Fellow and O. Henry Award winner.

American - Novelist | February 19, 1902 - December 27, 1992

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Springtime is a season we tend to forget as we grow older, and yet far back in our memories, like the landscape of a country visited long ago, it's always there.

Kay Boyle

Drink was the most fearsome of deceivers ... for it promised one thing and came through with quite another.

Kay Boyle

Ah, trouble, trouble, there are the two different kinds ... there's the one you give and the other you take.

Kay Boyle

I happen to like household chores and resent them only when performing them makes it difficult for me to fulfill my professional duties.

Kay Boyle

There is only one history of any importance, and it is the history of what you once believed in, and the history of what you came to believe in.

Kay Boyle

whatever devotion to something else there was in him had been made impure by church taken as a weekly, dutiful thing.

Kay Boyle

Your body is a jewel box.....the jewel is your soul

Kay Boyle

The decision to speak out is the vocation and lifelong peril by which the intellectual must live.

Kay Boyle

Because of my mother, who gave me definitions, I knew what I was committed to in life. ... I had the most satisfactory of childhoods because Mother, small, delicate-boned, witty, and articulate, turned out to be exactly my age.

Kay Boyle

You can reconstruct the picture from chaos and memory's ruins.

Kay Boyle

Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by Kay Boyle

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