106 Quotes by Phyllis Bottome

Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it.

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

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.

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.

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

To be in the right is often an expensive business.

There is nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final

Love comes into your being like a tidal wave ... sometimes it withdraws like a wave, till there isn't such a thing as a pool left, and every bit of your heart is as dry as seaweed beyond the wave's reach.

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