Phyllis Forbes Dennis (1884–1963) 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 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. Forbes Dennis died in July 1972 in Brighton.
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There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them.
—Phyllis Bottome
Topics: Difficulties, Difficulty
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.
—Phyllis Bottome
Topics: Change
There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
—Phyllis Bottome
Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it—and a greater fool if you count upon it.
—Phyllis Bottome
Topics: Luck
Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.
—Phyllis Bottome
Topics: Truth
To be in the right is often an expensive business.
—Phyllis Bottome
Topics: Right
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
Topics: Education
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