Quote

When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings.

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
Feelings
Cannot
Persons
Person
Wells
Well
Ruffled
Escape
Particularly

More quotes by 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
... one pets what one degrades and one has to support what one has enfeebled
Phyllis Bottome
Image
The two best subjects for conversation are talking shop and making love.
Phyllis Bottome
Image
it must depend as much upon the patient's willingness to be cured, as upon the physician's skill in curing. There is neither force not magic in psychiatry.
Phyllis Bottome
Image
There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
Phyllis Bottome
Image
hurt vanity is one of the cruelest of mortal wounds.
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
There is no thermometer for wants!
Phyllis Bottome
Image
Neither saints nor angels have ever increased my faith in this enigma Life but what are called 'common men and women' have increased it.
Phyllis Bottome
Image
Morale is not a single instinct. It has many ingredients. A sense of personal responsibility, the natural courage of an individual, the amount of his acquired self-discipline -- and above all his interest in others -- these together make up the spirit of morale.
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
... the ears of the hunted grow even keener than a hunter's.
Phyllis Bottome
Image
Human beings don't show, any more than cities at dusk, their real necessities! And yet if you looked -- past the circle of outside lights, through the street walls still standing -- into the want and emptiness within!
Phyllis Bottome
Image
What are so mysterious as the eyes of a child?
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
to everything there is an end - except fear.
Phyllis Bottome
Image
To be in the right is often an expensive business.
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
Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!
Phyllis Bottome
Image
It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.
Phyllis Bottome