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
change believe people
People who talk of new lives believe there will be no new troubles.
heart people cleaning
Life was a series of messes, and one spent one's time cleaning them up; if one had any heart at all one also gave a part of one's time to cleaning up those of other people.
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.
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.
except final taken
There is nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final
alter difficulty meeting ways
There are two ways of meeting difficulties: You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.
dangerous practice
It is very a dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice
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.
talking two making-love
The two best subjects for conversation are talking shop and making love.
time littles ends
Time indeed has very little to do with living except at its beginning or near its end.
children prayer hate
Curses are children of hate; they belong to the wrong family! Prayers are better than curses!
curse swearing ifs
Some of us cling to our curses if we haven't anything better to cling to!