When one married a man, it was clear to me, one married also the sink and the stove. — 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 uncoerced. Thus, and only thus, we obtain the most complex synthesis possible, which may well surpass… — 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
