Arnold Bennett Quotes

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
Arnold Bennett

Change, Drawbacks

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
Arnold Bennett

Friend, Remember, Same

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

Time, Waiting, Tomorrow

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

Happiness, Life, Happy

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

Husband, Job, Give

Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.
Arnold Bennett

Nothing, Matter, Happened

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.
Arnold Bennett

Down, Top, View

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

Truth, Experience, Knowledge

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Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.
Arnold Bennett

Mind, Nothing, Except

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

Reality, Hell, Secret

The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.
Arnold Bennett

Great, Knows, Advantage

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

Truth, Experience, Brain

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

Time, Best, Sense

Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.
Arnold Bennett

Strange, Opinion, Jolly

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

May, High, Cause

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

Unexpected, Late, Hurry

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

Person, Old, Social

If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.
Arnold Bennett

Self, Living, Means

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

Hope, True, Long

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
Arnold Bennett

Mom, Mother, Understand

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.
Arnold Bennett

Money, Amusing, Ingenuity

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
Arnold Bennett

Optimism, Used, Pessimism

The moment you're born you're done for.
Arnold Bennett

Done, Moment, Born

The price of justice is eternal publicity.
Arnold Bennett

Justice, Price, Eternal

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Biography

Nationality: English

Born: May 27, 1867

Died: March 27, 1931

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