Phyllis Bentley Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.