Marriage! ... Why, it is like living in a thimble with a hippopotamus! — Phyllis Bottome Hippopotamus Copy Share Image
Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness. — Phyllis Bottome Comedy Copy Share Image
There's nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final. — Phyllis Bottome Failure Copy Share Image
When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings. — Phyllis Bottome Feelings Copy Share Image
it is the possibilities which are the most terrible things in life. — Phyllis Bottome Life Copy Share Image
When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm. — Phyllis Bottome 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
To see a shadow and think it is a tree that is a pity; but to see a tree and to think… — Phyllis Bottome Pity 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 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 Copy Share Image
the unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites. — Phyllis Bottome Appetite Copy Share Image
Curses are children of hate; they belong to the wrong family! Prayers are better than curses! — Phyllis Bottome Children Copy Share Image
it is better in the long run to be cheated than to cheat. I have learned that there is no middle way. — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it. — Phyllis Bottome Changeless 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
That a Jew is despised or persecuted is bad for him, of course-but far worse for the Christian who does it-for although… — Phyllis Bottome Christian 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
Love comes into your being like a tidal wave ... sometimes it withdraws like a wave, till there isn't such a thing… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
The only creative power I know is that of what might roughly be called 'love'; not of course a sentimental love: a… — Phyllis Bottome Bird Copy Share Image
Some of us cling to our curses if we haven't anything better to cling to! — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
We cannot alter facts, but we can alter our ways of looking at them. — Phyllis Bottome Facts Copy Share Image
Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient - never. — Phyllis Bottome Death 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 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
I am never at picnics. The ground was not meant to be sat upon in its raw state, I feel sure, and… — Phyllis Bottome 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 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 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
There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them. — Phyllis Bottome Adversity Copy Share Image
It's a good thing to learn early that other people's opinions do not matter, unless they happen to be true. — Phyllis Bottome 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
... not being liked has a certain virtue about it, if the reason for the dislike does not lie in yourself! — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
A red-hot belief in eternal glory is probably the best antidote to human panic that there is. — Phyllis Bottome 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
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
