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
exercise excuse-you tolerance
No emergency excuses you from exercising tolerance.
lightning innocence sometimes
When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.
believe acceptance thinking
Every hen thinks she has laid the best egg! Can we not all believe as we choose? But the choice of others - what is that to us? Let them alone ...
luck fool forget
Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it.
truth advantages-and-disadvantages left
Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.
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.
wise strong ignorance
To be a Jew is to be strong with a strength that has outlived persecutions. It is to be wise against ignorance, honest against piracy, harmless against evil, kind against cruelty
talking want doe
When a reserved person once begins to talk, nothing can stop him; and he does not want to have to listen, until he has quite finished his unfamiliar exertion.
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.
change people outsiders
Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.
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.