Nobody can afford to appear more pleasant than they really are! — Phyllis Bottome Afford Copy Share Image
It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice. — Phyllis Bottome Dangerous Copy Share Image
People who talk of new lives believe there will be no new troubles. — Phyllis Bottome Believe Copy Share Image
Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away! — Phyllis Bottome Giving Copy Share Image
It is very a dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice. — Phyllis Bottome Dangerous Copy Share Image
When we refuse to accept our limitations, Nature, who is a stern realist, pays us out. — Phyllis Bottome Accepting 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
Lots of men hate women now-a-days. ... It was a man-made world, and now we're asking to go shares in the making. — Phyllis Bottome Asking 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
A man whose every exertion is bent upon showing up the flaws in his wife's character must be at least partially responsible… — Phyllis Bottome Bent Copy Share Image
Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon… — Phyllis Bottome Contingency Copy Share Image
A refugee is as helpless as a new born child - but not so appealing! Besides, a new born child has no… — Phyllis Bottome Born 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 Desire Copy Share Image
If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity. — Phyllis Bottome Character 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
This is the real tragedy of mankind, that until now the spirit of man has not been able to free itself, even… — Phyllis Bottome Able 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
... what most people tell you a confidence for is to get something off their chest which hasn't really been on it.… — Phyllis Bottome Chests 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
... one pets what one degrades; and one has to support what one has enfeebled — Phyllis Bottome Animal Copy Share Image
Our responsibility to ourselves comes first -- because in a sense what one is oneself is the responsibility that one has for… — Phyllis Bottome Firsts Copy Share Image
There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them. — Phyllis Bottome Adversity 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 Child Copy Share Image
it must depend as much upon the patient's willingness to be cured, as upon the physician's skill in curing. There is neither… — Phyllis Bottome Depends Copy Share Image
Knowledge cannot be changed, but the use to which it may be put can very easily be changed. — Phyllis Bottome Changed 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 Alteration 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
If one has one cow, it is always better not to be too familiar with those who have seven. — Phyllis Bottome Cows 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 Cleaning 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
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
with courage a human being is safe enough. And without it - he is never for one instant safe! — Phyllis Bottome Courage 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 Carrie Copy Share Image
the unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites. — Phyllis Bottome Appetite Copy Share Image
