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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.
~ 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