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A red-hot belief in eternal glory is probably the best antidote to human panic that there is. — Phyllis Bottome

What are so mysterious as the eyes of a child? — Phyllis Bottome

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them. — Phyllis Bottome

Can life be made undignified by any act of man? — Phyllis Bottome

The unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites. — Phyllis Bottome

We cannot alter facts, but we can alter our ways of looking at them. — Phyllis Bottome

Time indeed has very little to do with living except at its beginning or near its end. — Phyllis Bottome

If money had been the way to save the world, Christ himself would have been rich. — Phyllis Bottome

If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity. — Phyllis Bottome

Lots of men hate women now-a-days ... It was a man-made world, and now we're asking to go shares in the making. — Phyllis Bottome

Not being liked has a certain virtue about it, if the reason for the dislike does not lie in yourself! — Phyllis Bottome

Artists are exposed to great temptations: their eyes see paradise before their souls have reached it, and that is a great danger. — Phyllis Bottome

We do good by ourselves, but we seldom do wrong alone. — Phyllis Bottome

It is very a dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice. — Phyllis Bottome

Things that happen, however painful they are at the time, do not matter very much for long. Only how we behave to them matters. — Phyllis Bottome

Our responsibility to ourselves comes first
because in a sense what one is oneself is the responsibility that one has for others! — Phyllis Bottome

The ears of the hunted grow even keener than a hunter's. — Phyllis Bottome

It is better in the long run to be cheated than to cheat. I have learned that there is no middle way. — Phyllis Bottome

No emergency excuses you from exercising tolerance. — Phyllis Bottome

When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm. — Phyllis Bottome

It is the possibilities which are the most terrible things in life. — Phyllis Bottome

Curses are children of hate; they belong to the wrong family! Prayers are better than curses! — Phyllis Bottome

Marriage! ... Why, it is like living in a thimble with a hippopotamus! — Phyllis Bottome

All persecution is a sign of fear; for if we did not fear the power of an opinion different from our own, we should not mind others holding it. — Phyllis Bottome

A woman who has been a nun is never anything else. — Phyllis Bottome

Some of us cling to our curses if we haven't anything better to cling to! — Phyllis Bottome

A blossom must break the sheath it has been sheltered by. — Phyllis Bottome

Curiosity is the only thing that really carries through time, isn't it? The creative curiosity, I mean, which fights its way into expression? — Phyllis Bottome

To everything there is an end - except fear. — Phyllis Bottome

If one has one cow, it is always better not to be too familiar with those who have seven. — Phyllis Bottome

With courage a human being is safe enough. And without it - he is never for one instant safe! — Phyllis Bottome

Nobody can afford to appear more pleasant than they really are! — Phyllis Bottome

A desire that has never been fulfilled is considerably less acute than one that has been fulfilled and then checked at the source. — Phyllis Bottome

Anger is like mild, it should not be kept too long. — Phyllis Bottome

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. — Phyllis Bottome

Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness. — Phyllis Bottome

Knowledge cannot be changed, but the use to which it may be put can very easily be changed. — Phyllis Bottome

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? — Phyllis Bottome

Neither saints nor angels have ever increased my faith in this enigma Life; but what are called 'common men and women' have increased it. — Phyllis Bottome

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 ... — Phyllis Bottome

One pets what one degrades; and one has to support what one has enfeebled — Phyllis Bottome

A man whose every exertion is bent upon showing up the flaws in his wife's character must be at least partially responsible for some of them. — Phyllis Bottome

Truth is no man's slave - but lies - what magnificent servants they make ... — Phyllis Bottome

The two best subjects for conversation are talking shop and making love. — Phyllis Bottome

Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient - never. — Phyllis Bottome

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. — Phyllis Bottome

When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings. — Phyllis Bottome

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. — Phyllis Bottome

There is nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final. — Phyllis Bottome

There is no thermometer for wants! — Phyllis Bottome

Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it. — Phyllis Bottome

When we refuse to accept our limitations, Nature, who is a stern realist, pays us out. — Phyllis Bottome

People who talk of new lives believe there will be no new troubles. — Phyllis Bottome

Hurt vanity is one of the cruelest of mortal wounds. — Phyllis Bottome

Truth is its own defense. — Phyllis Bottome

Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it
and a greater fool if you count upon it. — Phyllis Bottome

A refugee is as helpless as a new born child - but not so appealing! Besides, a new born child has no memories! — Phyllis Bottome

It's a good thing to learn early that other people's opinions do not matter, unless they happen to be true. — Phyllis Bottome

Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away! — Phyllis Bottome

To be in the right is often an expensive business. — Phyllis Bottome