Quotes from Phyllis Bentley

When one married a man, it was clear to me, one married also the sink and the stove.

There are two roads to every place, and the wise man chooses the pleasant one.

Retracing the various episodes of one's life, one is disconcerted to discover that one was not as noble as one thought oneself at the time.

In every art the desire to practice it precedes both the full ability to do so and the possession of something worthwhile to express by its means.