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
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.
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?
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.
christian justice doe
That a Jew is despised or persecuted is bad for him, of course-but far worse for the Christian who does it-for although persecuted he can remain a good Jew-whereas no Christian who persecutes can possibly remain-if he ever was one-a good Christian.
mistake taken learning
There's nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final.
way facts
We cannot alter facts, but we can alter our ways of looking at them.
education sex children
In my early life, and probably even today, it is not sufficiently understood that a child's education should include at least a rudimentary grasp of religion, sex, and money. Without a basic knowledge of these three primary facts in a normal human being's life --subjects which stir the emotions, create events and opportunities, and if they do not wholly decide must greatly influence an individual's personality --no human being's education can have a safe foundation.
world way rich
If money had been the way to save the world, Christ himself would have been rich.
expensive
To be in the right is often an expensive business.