People who talk of new lives believe there will be no new troubles. — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
Marriage! ... Why, it is like living in a thimble with a hippopotamus! — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
it is the possibilities which are the most terrible things in life. — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
Time indeed has very little to do with living except at its beginning or near its end. — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
Neither saints nor angels have ever increased my faith in this enigma Life; but what are called 'common men and women' have… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
Life was a series of messes, and one spent one's time cleaning them up; if one had any heart at all one… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
Taboos on the human heart are more dangerous than any risk we run by using our emotions. Sensation is the life of… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
I wonder how often not the intention but the desire springs up in a doctor's mind: 'Can I let this human being… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
It is you men who make war! ... We, who have children, would never make it! Why should a woman be broken… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
all daughters, even when most aggravated by their mothers, have a secret respect for them. They believe perhaps that they can do… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
... most people are dead, and none of them seem to mind it. One hears a great many complaints about life, doesn't… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
In my early life, and probably even today, it is not sufficiently understood that a child's education should include at least a… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
Jane had that happy disposition which would like to imagine that every one really wishes the well-being of his neighbour and struggles, though sometimes… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share
Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share
Every hen thinks she has laid the best egg! Can we not all believe as we choose? But the choice of others - what… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share
If money had been the way to save the world, Christ himself would have been rich. — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share
When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings. — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share
death ... is not a great affair! Think - it happens once only - to each of us - as birth does. What do… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share
Taboos on the human heart are more dangerous than any risk we run by using our emotions. Sensation is the life of man; it… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share
... one pets what one degrades; and one has to support what one has enfeebled — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share
Truth is no man's slave - but lies - what magnificent servants they make. — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share
All persecution is a sign of fear; for if we did not fear the power of an opinion different from our own, we should… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share
Love comes into your being like a tidal wave ... sometimes it withdraws like a wave, till there isn't such a thing as a… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share
