Arnold Bennett quotes

Arnold Bennett was an English novelist, playwright, and critic, best known for his works depicting life in the Staffordshire Potteries. Many of his novels explored themes of social mobility and everyday life. He influenced English literary realism and left a lasting impact on 20th-century fiction. Here are 47 of his quotes:

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)
The price of justice is eternal publicity. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. View quote
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Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity. View quote
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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. (Arnold Bennett)
And, having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense. View quote
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The real tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort, who never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature. View quote
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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. View quote
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Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened. View quote
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It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top. View quote
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Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (Arnold Bennett)
Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism. View quote
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Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Arnold Bennett

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Occupation: English Novelist
Born: May 27, 1867
Died: March 27, 1931
Quotes count: 47
Wikipedia: Arnold Bennett

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