Phyllis Bottome Quotes
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There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
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Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.
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Neither saints nor angels have ever increased my faith in this enigma Life; but what are called 'common men and women' have increased it.
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... the ears of the hunted grow even keener than a hunter's.
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if you listen long enough - or is it deep enough? - the silence of a lover can speak plainer than any words! Only you must know how to listen. Pain must have taught you how.
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No emergency excuses you from exercising tolerance.
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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.
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To see a shadow and think it is a tree that is a pity; but to see a tree and to think it a shadow can be fatal.
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... can life be made undignified by any act of man?
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Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!
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hurt vanity is one of the cruelest of mortal wounds.
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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.
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to everything there is an end - except fear.
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I am never at picnics. The ground was not meant to be sat upon in its raw state, I feel sure, and I prefer my food without either caterpillars or drafts!
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Curses are children of hate; they belong to the wrong family! Prayers are better than curses!
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Curiosity is the only thing that really carries through time, isn't it? The creative curiosity, I mean, which fights its way into expression?
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It's a good thing to learn early that other people's opinions do not matter, unless they happen to be true.
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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?
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A refugee is as helpless as a new born child - but not so appealing! Besides, a new born child has no memories!
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Marriage! ... Why, it is like living in a thimble with a hippopotamus!
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If money had been the way to save the world, Christ himself would have been rich.
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It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.
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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.
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This is the real tragedy of mankind, that until now the spirit of man has not been able to free itself, even along the path of its own development, from the tentacles of self-deception.
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Taboos on the human heart are more dangerous than any risk we run by using our emotions. Sensation is the life of man; it is his actual energy. To suppress it is to lose creative power!
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If one has one cow, it is always better not to be too familiar with those who have seven.
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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.
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Nobody can afford to appear more pleasant than they really are!
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When we refuse to accept our limitations, Nature, who is a stern realist, pays us out.
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There is no thermometer for wants!
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