In every art the desire to practice it precedes both the full ability to do so and the possession of something worthwhile to express by its means. — Phyllis Bentley Copy Share Image
There are two roads to every place, and the wise man chooses the pleasant one. — Phyllis Bentley Copy Share Image
When one married a man, it was clear to me, one married also the sink and the stove. — Phyllis Bentley Copy Share Image
It's a useful rule in Anglo-American communications that the English should double, and the Americans halve, the number of words they would normally employ. — Phyllis Bentley Copy Share Image
your actions live after you till this globe is dissolved; they pass inevitably down as an inheritance from one generation to another. ... decency… — Phyllis Bentley Copy Share Image
In every art the desire to practice it precedes both the full ability to do so and the possession of something worthwhile to express… — Phyllis Bentley Copy Share Image
Retracing the various episodes of one's life, one is disconcerted to discover that one was not as noble as one thought oneself at the… — Phyllis Bentley Copy Share Image
My idea of marriage, as of every other partnership, ... is that each member shall contribute to it his or her personality, unrepressed and… — Phyllis Bentley Copy Share Image
These last years are as important as any that have gone before, nor will any other of our years vitiate or excuse them. The… — Phyllis Bentley Copy Share Image
