Arnold Bennett Quotes
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~ Arnold Bennett Quote
Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.
~ Arnold Bennett Quote
Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.
~ Arnold Bennett Quote
Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.
~ Arnold Bennett Quote
The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.
~ Arnold Bennett Quote
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.
~ Arnold Bennett Quote
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.
~ Arnold Bennett Quote
A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.
~ Arnold Bennett Quote
The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them.
~ Arnold Bennett Quote
Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it.
~ Arnold Bennett Quote
The moment you're born you're done for.
~ Arnold Bennett Quote
The price of justice is eternal publicity.
~ Arnold Bennett Quote
Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.
~ Arnold Bennett Quote
If you've ever really been poor, you remain poor at heart all your life.
~ Arnold Bennett Quote
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
~ Arnold Bennett Quote
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.
~ Arnold Bennett Quote
Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.
~ Arnold Bennett Quote
We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful.
~ Arnold Bennett Quote
Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.
~ Arnold Bennett Quote
Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
~ Arnold Bennett Quote
If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.
~ Arnold Bennett Quote
No matter what has happened, always behave as if nothing had happened.
~ Arnold Bennett Quote
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.
~ Arnold Bennett Quote
There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.
~ Arnold Bennett Quote
A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.
~ Arnold Bennett Quote
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
~ Arnold Bennett Quote
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.
~ Arnold Bennett Quote
It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.
~ Arnold Bennett Quote
A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.
~ Arnold Bennett Quote
Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
~ Arnold Bennett Quote
A sense of the value of time ... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.
~ Arnold Bennett Quote
