Quotes by Arnold Bennett

About Arnold Bennett:

Enoch Arnold Bennett is best known as a novelist, but he also worked in other fields such as journalism, propaganda and film.
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The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored; that is to say, he is not living.

Arnold Bennett

And since nothing whatever happens to us outside our own brain; since nothing hurt us or gives us pleasure except within the brain, the supreme importance of being able to control what goes on in that mysterious brain is patent.

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without the power to concentrate that is to say, without the power to dictate to the brain its task and to ensure obedience true life is impossible. Mind control is the first element of a full existence.

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You probably think of the orchestra as a heterogeneous mass of instruments producing a confused agreeable mass of sound. You do not listen for details because you have never trained your ears to listen to details.

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Money is far commoner than time. When one reflects, one perceives that money is just about the commonest thing there is.

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Ardour in well-doing is a misleading and a treacherous thing. It cries out loudly for employment; you can't satisfy it at first; it wants more and more; it is eager to move mountains and divert the course of rivers. It isn't content till it perspires...

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The second suggestion is to think as well as to read. I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them they might just as well cut bread-and-butter. They take to reading as better men take to drink. They fly through the shires of li...

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The proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.

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The supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it. You wake up in the morning, and lo! your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It...

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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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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.

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

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

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

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Author Bio

  • NameArnold Bennett
  • DescriptionEnglish novelist
  • BornMay 27, 1867
  • DiedMarch 27, 1931
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionScreenwriter; Author; Novelist; Autobiographer
  • AwardsJames Tait Black Memorial Prize