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
hurt vanity mortals
hurt vanity is one of the cruelest of mortal wounds.
pain children war
It is you men who make war! ... We, who have children, would never make it! Why should a woman be broken up in pain, to give her child life, only to see him carried away from her, to make food for guns?
wall real past
Human beings don't show, any more than cities at dusk, their real necessities! And yet if you looked -- past the circle of outside lights, through the street walls still standing -- into the want and emptiness within!
people want chests
... what most people tell you a confidence for is to get something off their chest which hasn't really been on it. They don't necessarily want to hide the truth from you, but they're out to hide it from themselves
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.
nun has-beens
... a woman who has been a nun is never anything else.
may use changed
Knowledge cannot be changed, but the use to which it may be put can very easily be changed.
men life-is made
... can life be made undignified by any act of man?
responsibility firsts oneself
Our responsibility to ourselves comes first -- because in a sense what one is oneself is the responsibility that one has for others!
feelings wells persons
When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings.
support pet degrade
... one pets what one degrades; and one has to support what one has enfeebled
truth defense truth-is
Truth is its own defense.
angel men saint
Neither saints nor angels have ever increased my faith in this enigma Life; but what are called 'common men and women' have increased it.
hippopotamus
Marriage! ... Why, it is like living in a thimble with a hippopotamus!