Famous Arnold Bennett Quotations

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"Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts."
by Arnold Bennett
"Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom and behold it, as it were, for the first time"
by Arnold Bennett
"Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life."
by Arnold Bennett
"Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic."
by Arnold Bennett
"Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense."
by Arnold Bennett
"'And yet,' demanded Councilor Barlow, 'what's he done Has he ever done a day's work in his life What great cause is he identified with' 'He's identified,' said the first speaker, 'with the great cause of cheering us all up.'"
by Arnold Bennett
"A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating."
by Arnold Bennett
"Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened."
by Arnold Bennett
"Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others."
by Arnold Bennett
"Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste."
by Arnold Bennett
"It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality."
by Arnold Bennett
"It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior imapartiality."
by Arnold Bennett
"No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind."
by Dr. Thomas Arnold Bennett
"The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else."
by Arnold Bennett
"The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is."
by Arnold Bennett
"The moment you're born you're done for."
by Arnold Bennett
"The real tradegy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature."
by Arnold Bennett
"We never shall have any more time we have, and we have always had, all the time there is."
by Dr. Thomas Arnold Bennett
"You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive."
by Thomas Arnold Bennett
"To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists."
by Arnold Bennett
"There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row."
by Arnold Bennett
"Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission."
by Arnold Bennett
"It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top."
by Arnold Bennett
"If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living."
by Arnold Bennett
"Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality."
by Arnold Bennett
"It is well, when one is judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality."
by Arnold Bennett
"Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism."
by Arnold Bennett
"A first-rate Organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected."
by Arnold Bennett
"We need a sense of the value of time -- that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities."
by Arnold Bennett
"Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man."
by Arnold Bennett
"The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions."
by Arnold Bennett
"You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive."
by Arnold Bennett
"Arnold Bennett says that the horror of marriage lies in its 'dailiness.' All acuteness of relationship is rubbed away by this. The truth is mo..."
by Virginia Woolf


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