Top 5 Olivia Manning Quotes

British writer and poet (1908–1980)

Olivia Mary Manning (2 March 1908 – 23 July 1980) was a British novelist, poet, writer, and reviewer.

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Ignorance breeds fear. Tell people the truth. Trust them to keep their heads.

This was a world in which only the ignorant could be happy.

War meant a perpetual postponement of life, yet one did not cease to grow old.

An age of chivalry as outmoded as honour, as obsolete as truth.

'She's just a typical bourgeois reactionary.' 'You mean, her prejudices are different from yours.'