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
Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must… — Phyllis Bottome Altered Copy Share Image
Every hen thinks she has laid the best egg! Can we not all believe as we choose? But the choice of others… — Phyllis Bottome Acceptance Copy Share Image
If money had been the way to save the world, Christ himself would have been rich. — Phyllis Bottome Christ Copy Share Image
When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings. — Phyllis Bottome Feelings Copy Share Image
Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away! — Phyllis Bottome Giving 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
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
... one pets what one degrades; and one has to support what one has enfeebled — Phyllis Bottome Degrade Copy Share Image
Truth is no man's slave - but lies - what magnificent servants they make. — Phyllis Bottome Lying Copy Share Image
Marriage! ... Why, it is like living in a thimble with a hippopotamus! — Phyllis Bottome Hippopotamus Copy Share Image
People who talk of new lives believe there will be no new troubles. — Phyllis Bottome Believe 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 Different 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 Bits Copy Share Image
Things that happen, however painful they are at the time, do not matter very much for long. Only how we behave to… — Phyllis Bottome Behave Copy Share Image
I am never at picnics. The ground was not meant to be sat upon in its raw state, I feel sure, and… — Phyllis Bottome Caterpillars Copy Share Image
She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent… — Phyllis Bottome Amount 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 Aggravated Copy Share Image
Personally, I think it's a good way to let a child start right in with the laws of Nature before he's old… — Phyllis Bottome Children 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 Angel Copy Share Image
