Olivia Manning

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

Quotes

 * '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.