Quote

Truth is its own defense.

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
Defense
Truth

More quotes by 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
A desire that has never been fulfilled is considerably less acute than one that has been fulfilled and then checked at the source.
Phyllis Bottome
Image
When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.
Phyllis Bottome
Image
Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.
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
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
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 is better in the long run to be cheated than to cheat. I have learned that there is no middle way.
Phyllis Bottome
Image
What are so mysterious as the eyes of a child?
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
Some of us cling to our curses if we haven't anything better to cling to!
Phyllis Bottome
Image
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.
Phyllis Bottome
Image
Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.
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
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
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
Nobody can afford to appear more pleasant than they really are!
Phyllis Bottome
Image
Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!
Phyllis Bottome
Image
Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.
Phyllis Bottome