Arnold Bennett Quotes

• 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.

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

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• Well, my deliberate opinion is – it’s a jolly strange world.

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• 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.

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• 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

• 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.

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• 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.

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• The moment you’re born you’re done for.

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

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• 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.

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

  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.

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

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

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• If egotism means a terrific interest in one’s self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.

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• 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.

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• Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it.

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

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• A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.

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• 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.

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Arnold Bennett (43)

Birth:	27th May, 1867
Death:	27th March, 1931
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Novelist, Playwright, Writer

About

Arnold Bennett was born in a modest house in Hanley in the Potteries district of Staffordshire. He was an English writer. He is best known as a novelist, but he also worked in other fields such as journalism, propaganda and film. Bennett won a literary competition hosted by Tit-Bits magazine in 1889 and was encouraged to take up journalism full-time. In 1894, he became assistant editor of the periodical Woman. Just over four years later, his first novel, A Man from the North, was published to critical acclaim and he became editor of the magazine. From 1900 he devoted himself full-time to writing, giving up the editorship. He continued to write journalism despite the success of his career as a novelist.

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