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Phyllis Bottome Quotes


A British novelist and short story writer who wrote under her birth name, Phyllis Bottome.
Phyllis Forbes Dennis (May 31, 1884 – August 22, 1963) was a British novelist and short story writer who wrote under her birth name, Phyllis Bottome. She was born in Rochester, Kent to an American clergyman, Rev. William MacDonald Bottome and Mary (Leatham) Bottome. In 1917, in Paris, she married Alban Ernan Forbes Dennis, a British diplomat working firstly in Marseilles and then in Vienna as Passport Control Officer, a cover for his real role as MI6 Head of Station with responsibility for Austria, Hungary and Yugoslavia. Her marriage to Forbes Dennis was to be a long and triumphant partnership. Forbes Dennis died in July 1972 in London.

Here are some famous quotes by Phyllis Bottome.

No emergency excuses you from exercising tolerance.

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

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

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

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A red-hot belief in eternal glory is probably the best antidote to human panic that there is.

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

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

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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.