Arnold Bennett quotes Born: 05/27/1867 Died: 03/27/1931 Country: united_kingdom

• Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity. (Arnold Bennett) [money/more/money]
• Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like. (Arnold Bennett) [mother]
• Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission. (Arnold Bennett) [mind]
• 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/take/life]
• It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality. (Arnold Bennett) [remember]
• All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do. (Arnold Bennett) [thing]
• 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) [artist/insight/matter/experience]
• It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable. (Arnold Bennett) [experience/pleasure/pain/reach]
• 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)
• 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. (Arnold Bennett) [morning/universe/life/take]
• The price of justice is eternal publicity. (Arnold Bennett) [price/]
• The traveler, however virginal and enthusiastic, does not enjoy an unbroken ecstasy. He has periods of gloom, periods when he asks himself the object of all these exertions, and puts the question whether or not he is really experiencing pleasure. At such times he suspects that he is not seeing the right things, that the characteristic, the right aspects of these strange scenes are escaping him. He looks forward dully to the days of his holiday yet to pass, and wonders how he will dispose of them. He is disgusted because his money is not more, his command of the language so slight, and his capacity for enjoyment so limited. (Arnold Bennett) [question/pleasure/right/right]
• Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. (Arnold Bennett) [change]
• It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top. (Arnold Bennett) [top]
• 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. (Arnold Bennett) [more/instinct]
• 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]
• 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) [wonder/being/culture/being]
• Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion. (Arnold Bennett) [compassion]
• 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 Be (Arnold Bennett)
• Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened. (Arnold Bennett)
• Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. (Arnold Bennett)
• 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)
• 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)
• If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living. (Arnold Bennett)
• 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)
• Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism. (Arnold Bennett)
• The great advantage of being in a rut is tha (Arnold Bennett)
• The moment you're born you're done for. (Arnold Bennett)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)

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