Christian Quote by Phyllis Bottome

Jane had that happy disposition which would like to imagine that every one really wishes the well-being of his neighbour and struggles, though sometimes…

— Phyllis Bottome

Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from…

— Phyllis Bottome

Every hen thinks she has laid the best egg! Can we not all believe as we choose? But the choice of others - what…

— Phyllis Bottome

If money had been the way to save the world, Christ himself would have been rich.

— Phyllis Bottome

When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings.

— Phyllis Bottome

Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!

— Phyllis Bottome

death ... is not a great affair! Think - it happens once only - to each of us - as birth does. What do…

— Phyllis Bottome

Taboos on the human heart are more dangerous than any risk we run by using our emotions. Sensation is the life of man; it…

— Phyllis Bottome

... one pets what one degrades; and one has to support what one has enfeebled

— Phyllis Bottome

Truth is no man's slave - but lies - what magnificent servants they make.

— Phyllis Bottome

Marriage! ... Why, it is like living in a thimble with a hippopotamus!

— Phyllis Bottome

Anger is like mild, it should not be kept too long.

— Phyllis Bottome