It's a good thing to learn early that other people's opinions do not matter, unless they happen to be true. — Phyllis Bottome Being true Copy Share Image
There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them. — Phyllis Bottome Adversity Copy Share Image
A desire that has never been fulfilled is considerably less acute than one that has been fulfilled and then checked at the… — Phyllis Bottome Desire Copy Share Image
... most people are dead, and none of them seem to mind it. One hears a great many complaints about life, doesn't… — Phyllis Bottome Complaints 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
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
“to be a Jew is to belong to an old harmless race that has lived in every country in the world; and… — Phyllis Bottome Jews 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
the unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites. — Phyllis Bottome Appetite Copy Share Image
if you listen long enough - or is it deep enough? - the silence of a lover can speak plainer than any… — Phyllis Bottome Communication 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
Some of us cling to our curses if we haven't anything better to cling to! — Phyllis Bottome Curse 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
When a reserved person once begins to talk, nothing can stop him; and he does not want to have to listen, until… — Phyllis Bottome Doe 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
To be a Jew is to be strong with a strength that has outlived persecutions. It is to be wise against ignorance,… — Phyllis Bottome Being wise 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
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
It is you men who make war! ... We, who have children, would never make it! Why should a woman be broken… — Phyllis Bottome Broken Copy Share Image
