It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice. Phyllis Bottome More Quotes by Phyllis Bottome More Quotes From Phyllis Bottome If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity. Phyllis Bottome play integrity character If money had been the way to save the world, Christ himself would have been rich. Phyllis Bottome rich way world 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 struggle wish helping In my early life, and probably even today, it is not sufficiently understood that a child's education should include at least a rudimentary grasp of religion, sex, and money. Without a basic knowledge of these three primary facts in a normal human being's life --subjects which stir the emotions, create events and opportunities, and if they do not wholly decide must greatly influence an individual's personality --no human being's education can have a safe foundation. Phyllis Bottome education children sex We cannot alter facts, but we can alter our ways of looking at them. Phyllis Bottome facts way To be in the right is often an expensive business. Phyllis Bottome expensive I wonder how often not the intention but the desire springs up in a doctor's mind: 'Can I let this human being out of the trap of Life? Phyllis Bottome doctors mind spring artists are exposed to great temptations: their eyes see paradise before their souls have reached it, and that is a great danger. Phyllis Bottome eye artist temptation No emergency excuses you from exercising tolerance. Phyllis Bottome excuse-you tolerance exercise To see a shadow and think it is a tree that is a pity; but to see a tree and to think it a shadow can be fatal. Phyllis Bottome shadow tree thinking People who talk of new lives believe there will be no new troubles. Phyllis Bottome change believe people death ... is not a great affair! Think - it happens once only - to each of us - as birth does. What do you know about being born? that - and no more - will you know about the act of death. Phyllis Bottome birth doe thinking Curiosity is the only thing that really carries through time, isn't it? The creative curiosity, I mean, which fights its way into expression? Phyllis Bottome fighting expression mean The two best subjects for conversation are talking shop and making love. Phyllis Bottome making-love talking two Personally, I think it's a good way to let a child start right in with the laws of Nature before he's old enough to be surprised at them. Phyllis Bottome law children thinking A red-hot belief in eternal glory is probably the best antidote to human panic that there is. Phyllis Bottome panic red hot When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm. Phyllis Bottome innocence lightning sometimes That a Jew is despised or persecuted is bad for him, of course-but far worse for the Christian who does it-for although persecuted he can remain a good Jew-whereas no Christian who persecutes can possibly remain-if he ever was one-a good Christian. Phyllis Bottome diversity christian justice What are so mysterious as the eyes of a child? Phyllis Bottome eyes-of-a-child eye children Taboos on the human heart are more dangerous than any risk we run by using our emotions. Sensation is the life of man; it is his actual energy. To suppress it is to lose creative power! Phyllis Bottome heart running men
