Phyllis Bottome Quotes
it is better in the long run to be cheated than to cheat. I have learned that there is no middle way.
If one has one cow, it is always better not to be too familiar with those who have seven.
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.
Curiosity is the only thing that really carries through time, isn't it? The creative curiosity, I mean, which fights its way into expression?
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!
Knowledge cannot be changed, but the use to which it may be put can very easily be changed.
Our responsibility to ourselves comes first -- because in a sense what one is oneself is the responsibility that one has for others!
A refugee is as helpless as a new born child - but not so appealing! Besides, a new born child has no memories!
... not being liked has a certain virtue about it, if the reason for the dislike does not lie in yourself!
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.
When we refuse to accept our limitations, Nature, who is a stern realist, pays us out.
Life was a series of messes, and one spent one's time cleaning them up; if one had any heart at all one also gave a part of one's time to cleaning up those of other people.
artists are exposed to great temptations: their eyes see paradise before their souls have reached it, and that is a great danger.
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.
Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it-and a greater fool if you count upon it.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.