“We cannot alter facts, but we can alter our ways of looking at them.”
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Famous Phyllis Bottome Quotes
Source: The Mortal Storm
“No emergency excuses you from exercising tolerance.”
Source: The Mortal Storm
“When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.”
Source: The Mortal Storm
Source: The Mortal Storm
Source: Innocence and experience: stories
Source: Tatter'd Loving
“A blossom must break the sheath it has been sheltered by.”
Source: The Mortal Storm
“People who talk of new lives believe there will be no new troubles.”
Source: Old Wine: A Novel
“What are so mysterious as the eyes of a child?”
Source: The Derelict: And Also The Liquer Glass, Mademoiselle L'Anglaise, The Awkward Turn, The Syren's Isle, Ironstone, The Pace, Brother Leo
“The two best subjects for conversation are talking shop and making love.”
“with courage a human being is safe enough. And without it - he is never for one instant safe!”
Source: The Mortal Storm
Source: Innocence and experience: stories
Source: The Mortal Storm
“There is no thermometer for wants!”
Source: The Mortal Storm
Source: Old Wine: A Novel
“Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient - never.”
“to everything there is an end - except fear.”
Source: Innocence and experience: stories
“We do good by ourselves, but we seldom do wrong alone.”
Source: Innocence and experience: stories
Source: Survival
Source: Old Wine: A Novel
“When we refuse to accept our limitations, Nature, who is a stern realist, pays us out.”
“Truth is no man's slave - but lies - what magnificent servants they make.”
“Marriage! ... Why, it is like living in a thimble with a hippopotamus!”
Source: Old Wine: A Novel
“Nobody can afford to appear more pleasant than they really are!”
Source: Innocence and experience: stories
Source: The Mortal Storm
“Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!”
“it is the possibilities which are the most terrible things in life.”
Source: Innocence and experience: stories
Source: Survival
Source: The Secret Stair
“If one has one cow, it is always better not to be too familiar with those who have seven.”
Source: Old Wine: A Novel
Source: Innocence and experience: stories
“the unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites.”
“Some of us cling to our curses if we haven't anything better to cling to!”
Source: The Secret Stair
“Curses are children of hate; they belong to the wrong family! Prayers are better than curses!”
Source: The Mortal Storm
Source: Survival
“Time indeed has very little to do with living except at its beginning or near its end.”
Source: The Mortal Storm
Source: Old Wine: A Novel