Quote

to everything there is an end - except fear.

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
Ends
Everything
Except
Fear

More quotes by Phyllis Bottome

Image
the unfortunate thing about worldliness is that its rewards are rather less than its appetites.
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
When a reserved person once begins to talk, nothing can stop him and he does not want to have to listen, until he has quite finished his unfamiliar exertion.
Phyllis Bottome
Image
Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!
Phyllis Bottome
Image
When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings.
Phyllis Bottome
Image
That a Jew is despised or persecuted is bad for him, of course-but far worse for the Christian who does it-for although persecuted he can remain a good Jew-whereas no Christian who persecutes can possibly remain-if he ever was one-a good Christian.
Phyllis Bottome
Image
Nobody can afford to appear more pleasant than they really are!
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
All persecution is a sign of fear for if we did not fear the power of an opinion different from our own, we should not mind others holding it.
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
People who talk of new lives believe there will be no new troubles.
Phyllis Bottome
Image
Jane had that happy disposition which would like to imagine that every one really wishes the well-being of his neighbour and struggles, though sometimes rather disastrously, to help him towards it.
Phyllis Bottome
Image
If money had been the way to save the world, Christ himself would have been rich.
Phyllis Bottome
Image
hurt vanity is one of the cruelest of mortal wounds.
Phyllis Bottome
Image
To be in the right is often an expensive business.
Phyllis Bottome
Image
... one pets what one degrades and one has to support what one has enfeebled
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
... 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
The two best subjects for conversation are talking shop and making love.
Phyllis Bottome