Quotes by Arnold Bennett

Arnold Bennett

Arnold Bennett

British novelist

Lived from: 1867 - 1931

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 27 may 1867 Died: 27 march 1931

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

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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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  • 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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  • All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.
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  • Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.
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  • Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
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  • Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her; she knows by a process of the intellect; but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgin's lot.
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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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  • 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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  • Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.
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  • Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.
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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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  • If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.
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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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  • 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's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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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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  • Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
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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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  • 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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  • Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
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What are the most famous quotes from Arnold Bennett?

The two most famous quotes from Arnold Bennett are:

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

When did Arnold Bennett live?

Arnold Bennett was born in 1867 and died in the year 1931.