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Phyllis Bentley was an English novelist known for her intricate psychological portrayals and profound insights into the roles of women. Her works often explore social changes and individual struggles, particularly focusing on the status of women in society.

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“In every art the desire to practice it precedes both the full ability to do so and the possession of something worthwhile to express by its means.”

Mean Art Desire Ability Practice Possession Worthwhile

Book:O Dreams, O Destinations

Source: O Dreams, O Destinations

“It's a useful rule in Anglo-American communications that the English should double, and the Americans halve, the number of words they would normally employ.”

Should Numbers United States Communication Speech England

Book:O Dreams, O Destinations

Source: O Dreams, O Destinations

“your actions live after you till this globe is dissolved; they pass inevitably down as an inheritance from one generation to another. ... decency and integrity, courage and compassion, are always well worth while; they are not lost, but pass on down the generations; we are indeed the heirs of all the ages.”

Wells Age Action Lost Compassion Generations Integrity Globes Inheritance Decency Heirs

Author:Phyllis Bentley

“When one married a man, it was clear to me, one married also the sink and the stove.”

Men Marriage Clear Wife Married Housework Stoves

Book:O Dreams, O Destinations

Source: O Dreams, O Destinations

“There are two roads to every place, and the wise man chooses the pleasant one.”

Men Two Wise Pleasant Two Roads

Book:The House of Moreys

Source: The House of Moreys

“My idea of marriage, as of every other partnership, ... is that each member shall contribute to it his or her personality, unrepressed and uncoerced. Thus, and only thus, we obtain the most complex synthesis possible, which may well surpass in beauty, as it surely does in interest and human value, the separate elements of such an association.”

Humans Wells May Doe Ideas Values Interest Marriage Personality Members Elements Complexes Association Partnership Human Values Synthesis

Book:Inheritance

Source: Inheritance

“Retracing the various episodes of one's life, one is disconcerted to discover that one was not as noble as one thought oneself at the time.”

Oneself Various Noble Episodes

Book:O Dreams, O Destinations

Source: O Dreams, O Destinations

“These last years are as important as any that have gone before, nor will any other of our years vitiate or excuse them. The struggle continues.”

Years Important Lasts Struggle Gone Excuse Last Year

Author:Phyllis Bentley

About the Author

Born: November 19, 1894
Died: June 27, 1977
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 8

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