Quote

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

Phyllis Bottome

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Phyllis Bottome
Age: 81 †
Born: 1882
Born: May 31
Died: 1963
Died: August 22
Author
Novelist
Writer
Phyllis Forbes Dennis
Character
Observations
Give
Plot
Play
Observation
Must
Integrity
Giving
Characters
Second
Writer
True
Fiddle

More quotes by Phyllis Bottome

Image
When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings.
Phyllis Bottome
Image
the unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites.
Phyllis Bottome
Image
If money had been the way to save the world, Christ himself would have been rich.
Phyllis Bottome
Image
The two best subjects for conversation are talking shop and making love.
Phyllis Bottome
Image
Love comes into your being like a tidal wave ... sometimes it withdraws like a wave, till there isn't such a thing as a pool left, and every bit of your heart is as dry as seaweed beyond the wave's reach.
Phyllis Bottome
Image
... can life be made undignified by any act of man?
Phyllis Bottome
Image
... one pets what one degrades and one has to support what one has enfeebled
Phyllis Bottome
Image
Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it.
Phyllis Bottome
Image
Some of us cling to our curses if we haven't anything better to cling to!
Phyllis Bottome
Image
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
Image
... a woman who has been a nun is never anything else.
Phyllis Bottome
Image
Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.
Phyllis Bottome
Image
if you listen long enough - or is it deep enough? - the silence of a lover can speak plainer than any words! Only you must know how to listen. Pain must have taught you how.
Phyllis Bottome
Image
It's a good thing to learn early that other people's opinions do not matter, unless they happen to be true.
Phyllis Bottome
Image
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
Image
artists are exposed to great temptations: their eyes see paradise before their souls have reached it, and that is a great danger.
Phyllis Bottome
Image
I am never at picnics. The ground was not meant to be sat upon in its raw state, I feel sure, and I prefer my food without either caterpillars or drafts!
Phyllis Bottome
Image
A blossom must break the sheath it has been sheltered by.
Phyllis Bottome
Image
She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves by it.
Phyllis Bottome
Image
death ... is not a great affair! Think - it happens once only - to each of us - as birth does. What do you know about being born? that - and no more - will you know about the act of death.
Phyllis Bottome