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

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  • The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.
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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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  • The moment you're born you're done for.
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  • The price of justice is eternal publicity.
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  • 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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  • 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.
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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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  • 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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  • Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.
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  • 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.
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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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  • It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.
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