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
dangerous practice
It is very a dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice
alter difficulty meeting ways
There are two ways of meeting difficulties: You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.
except final taken
There is nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final
laughter sickness
Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.
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.
long matter painful
Things that happen, however painful they are at the time, do not matter very much for long. Only how we behave to them matters.
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.
children order lasts
She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves by it.
spring doctors mind
I wonder how often not the intention but the desire springs up in a doctor's mind: 'Can I let this human being out of the trap of Life?
eye artist soul
artists are exposed to great temptations: their eyes see paradise before their souls have reached it, and that is a great danger.
children eye eyes-of-a-child
What are so mysterious as the eyes of a child?
children thinking law
Personally, I think it's a good way to let a child start right in with the laws of Nature before he's old enough to be surprised at them.
feelings wells persons
When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings.
lightning innocence sometimes
When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.