About Phyllis Bottome: Phyllis Forbes Dennis was a British novelist and short story writer who wrote under her birth name, Phyllis Bottome (/b??to?m/ b?-TOHM).
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 meeting them.
It is very a dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.
There is nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final.
Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it.
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.
