Eden Phillpotts was an English author, poet and dramatist. Born in Mount Abu, British India, he studied for the stage in London, but turned to literature instead (1893). He made his name by realistic novels mainly set in Devonshire, such as lying Prophets (1896), Children of the Mist(l898) and Widecombe Fair (1913), and wrote more than 250 books in all. Of his plays, The Farmer’s Wife (1917, staged 1924) and Yellow Sands ( 1926), which he wrote with his daughter Adelaide, were perhaps the most successful. He also collaborated with Arnold Bennett and Jerome K. Jerome on plays.
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Faith is a permanent and vital endowment of the human mind—a part of reason itself. The insane alone are without it.
—Eden Phillpotts
Topics: Insanity
We always think every other man’s job is easier than our own. The better he does it, the easier it looks.
—Eden Phillpotts
Topics: Illusion
A Persian carpet or piece of Sheraton makes a distinguished end and bears itself with dignity to the last—as aristocrats before the guillotine. But a Brussels or bit of mid-Victorian will be found to grovel, show its unlovely wounds and scream for pity.
—Eden Phillpotts
Topics: Character
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
—Eden Phillpotts
Topics: Universe, Wonder, World, Abundance, Magic, Progress
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