# Quote — Elizabeth Bowen, A Time in Rome

> I am sick of the governessy attitude of our age, which is coming to be more genuinely presumptuous, nosier and more busybody than the Victorian.

- Author: [Elizabeth Bowen](https://www.leafyquotes.com/elizabeth-bowen.md)
- Book: [A Time in Rome](https://www.leafyquotes.com/elizabeth-bowen/a-time-in-rome.md)
- Page: 141
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Bowen#A_Time_in_Rome_(1960)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/elizabeth-bowen/a-time-in-rome/i-am-sick

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> [U]ntruths are thieves, robbing us of a birthright.

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> [T]here is a flaw in civilization from the instant it has to admit fear.

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