Quote

People who talk of new lives believe there will be no new troubles.

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
People
Troubles
Trouble
Talk
Lives
Change
Believe

More quotes by 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
... the ears of the hunted grow even keener than a hunter's.
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
Things that happen, however painful they are at the time, do not matter very much for long. Only how we behave to them matters.
Phyllis Bottome
Image
... one pets what one degrades and one has to support what one has enfeebled
Phyllis Bottome
Image
Nobody can afford to appear more pleasant than they really are!
Phyllis Bottome
Image
If one has one cow, it is always better not to be too familiar with those who have seven.
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
to everything there is an end - except fear.
Phyllis Bottome
Image
A refugee is as helpless as a new born child - but not so appealing! Besides, a new born child has no memories!
Phyllis Bottome
Image
There is no thermometer for wants!
Phyllis Bottome
Image
When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.
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
Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient - never.
Phyllis Bottome
Image
... can life be made undignified by any act of man?
Phyllis Bottome
Image
A red-hot belief in eternal glory is probably the best antidote to human panic that there is.
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
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