Phyllis Bottome Short Quotes

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To everything there is an end — except fear.

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No emergency excuses you from exercising tolerance.

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The ears of the hunted grow even keener than a hunter's.

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A blossom must break the sheath it has been sheltered by.

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That's the worst of devotion — its trade-mark is anxiety.

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To Hans failure had no more moral significance than success.

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Nothing ever really sets human nature free, but self-control.

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Nobody can afford to appear more pleasant than they really are!

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Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.

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It is the possibilities which are the most terrible things in life.

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

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When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.

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We cannot alter facts, but we can alter our ways of looking at them.

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She had settled down to age as if she found it very pleasant company.

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Darkness began to drink up the last cold light upon the mountainside.

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Marriage!... Why, it is like living in a thimble with a hippopotamus!

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There's nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final.

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Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!

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The two best subjects for conversation are talking shop and making love.

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It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.

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Heroes are unpredictable. They can make nonsense of almost any obstacle.

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You've been brought up to be nice — and that's a dangerous profession.

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Some of us cling to our curses if we haven't anything better to cling to!

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One pets what one degrades; and one has to support what one has enfeebled.

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Truth is no man's slave — but lies — what magnificent servants they make.

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Her beauty made her silences as important as speech and much less troublesome.

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A strip of pale daffodil, sharp as a razor blade, pried open the lid of the sky.

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Death deceives relations often, and doctors sometimes, but the patient — never.

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If money had been the way to save the world, Christ Himself would have been rich.

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Her morality often changed color against the stronger color schemes of her wishes.

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