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 moment you're born you're done for.

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

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

Arnold Bennett

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

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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.

Arnold Bennett

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

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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.

Arnold Bennett

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

Arnold Bennett

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

Arnold Bennett

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

Arnold Bennett

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.

Arnold Bennett

The price of justice is eternal publicity.

Arnold Bennett

It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made --- so faithful is the public.

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The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn ...

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Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.

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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