There are two roads to every place, and the wise man chooses the pleasant one.

- Phyllis Bentley

your actions live after you till this globe is dissolved; they pass inevitably down as an inheritance from one generation to another. ... decency and…

- Phyllis Bentley

These last years are as important as any that have gone before, nor will any other of our years vitiate or excuse them. The struggle continues.

- Phyllis Bentley

Retracing the various episodes of one's life, one is disconcerted to discover that one was not as noble as one thought oneself at the time.

- Phyllis Bentley

When one married a man, it was clear to me, one married also the sink and the stove.

- Phyllis Bentley

It's a useful rule in Anglo-American communications that the English should double, and the Americans halve, the number of words they would normally …

- Phyllis Bentley

My idea of marriage, as of every other partnership, ... is that each member shall contribute to it his or her personality, unrepressed and uncoerced.…

- Phyllis Bentley

In every art the desire to practice it precedes both the full ability to do so and the possession of something worthwhile to express by its means.

- Phyllis Bentley