... one pets what one degrades; and one has to support what one has enfeebled — Phyllis Bottome Animal Copy Share Image
When we refuse to accept our limitations, Nature, who is a stern realist, pays us out. — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away! — Phyllis Bottome Giving Copy Share Image
the unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites. — Phyllis Bottome Appetite Copy Share Image
Curses are children of hate; they belong to the wrong family! Prayers are better than curses! — Phyllis Bottome Children Copy Share Image
Curiosity is the only thing that really carries through time, isn't it? The creative curiosity, I mean, which fights its way into… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it. — Phyllis Bottome Changeless Copy Share Image
it is better in the long run to be cheated than to cheat. I have learned that there is no middle way. — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
All persecution is a sign of fear; for if we did not fear the power of an opinion different from our own,… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
with courage a human being is safe enough. And without it - he is never for one instant safe! — Phyllis Bottome Courage Copy Share Image
artists are exposed to great temptations: their eyes see paradise before their souls have reached it, and that is a great danger. — Phyllis Bottome Art 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,… — Phyllis Bottome Busybodies Copy Share Image
... what most people tell you a confidence for is to get something off their chest which hasn't really been on it.… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
This is the real tragedy of mankind, that until now the spirit of man has not been able to free itself, even… — 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 Creative Copy Share Image
Human beings don't show, any more than cities at dusk, their real necessities! And yet if you looked -- past the circle… — Phyllis Bottome Circles Copy Share Image
The only creative power I know is that of what might roughly be called 'love'; not of course a sentimental love: a… — Phyllis Bottome Bird Copy Share Image
Love comes into your being like a tidal wave ... sometimes it withdraws like a wave, till there isn't such a thing… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
death ... is not a great affair! Think - it happens once only - to each of us - as birth does.… — Phyllis Bottome Affair Copy Share Image
“to be a Jew is to belong to an old harmless race that has lived in every country in the world; and… — Phyllis Bottome Israel 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 Children 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
It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice. — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
People who talk of new lives believe there will be no new troubles. — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
It is very a dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice. — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
We cannot alter facts, but we can alter our ways of looking at them. — Phyllis Bottome Facts Copy Share Image
Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient - never. — Phyllis Bottome Death Copy Share Image
