Phyllis Bottome
Phyllis Bottome
Phyllis Forbes Denniswas a British novelist and short story writer who wrote under her birth name, Phyllis Bottome...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth31 May 1884
learning people matter
It's a good thing to learn early that other people's opinions do not matter, unless they happen to be true.
daughter mother lying
all daughters, even when most aggravated by their mothers, have a secret respect for them. They believe perhaps that they can do everything better than their mothers can, and many things they can do better, but they have not yet lived long enough to be sure how successfully they will meet the major emergencies of life, which lie, sometimes quite creditably, behind their mothers.
laughter sickness
Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.
anger long should
Anger is like mild, it should not be kept too long.
adversity two way
There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
heart dry pool
Love comes into your being like a tidal wave ... sometimes it withdraws like a wave, till there isn't such a thing as a pool left, and every bit of your heart is as dry as seaweed beyond the wave's reach.
thinking doe birth
death ... is not a great affair! Think - it happens once only - to each of us - as birth does. What do you know about being born? that - and no more - will you know about the act of death.
thinking creative bird
The only creative power I know is that of what might roughly be called 'love'; not of course a sentimental love: a far more impersonal and less individual emotion. I sometimes think that migratory birds may have it for each other. They fly in the same direction, and have never been seen to interfere with each other's flights.
lying doe virtue
... not being liked has a certain virtue about it, if the reason for the dislike does not lie in yourself!
lying men truth-is
Truth is no man's slave - but lies - what magnificent servants they make ...
thinking tree shadow
To see a shadow and think it is a tree that is a pity; but to see a tree and to think it a shadow can be fatal.
people mind great-men
... most people are dead, and none of them seem to mind it. One hears a great many complaints about life, doesn't one? And there are people I know who would certainly grumble -- however dead they were -- if there were anything to grumble at.
change believe people
People who talk of new lives believe there will be no new troubles.
fear ends
to everything there is an end - except fear.