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

She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves …

- Phyllis Bottome

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 m…

- Phyllis Bottome

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 …

- Phyllis Bottome

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 th…

- Phyllis Bottome

Feelings change facts.

- Phyllis Bottome

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

- Phyllis Bottome

To be a Jew is to be strong with a strength that has outlived persecutions. It is to be wise against ignorance, honest against piracy, harmless again…

- Phyllis Bottome

Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.

- Phyllis Bottome