Arnold Bennett Quotes

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

The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.

Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like all-embracing compassion.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be...

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its fo...

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

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

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for exper...

We shall never have more time. We have and have always had all the time there is. No object is ser...

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

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

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

If you've ever really been poor you remain poor at heart all your life.

A sense of the value of time ... is an essential preliminary to efficient work it is the only metho...

No matter what has happened always behave as if nothing had happened.

A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.

It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once ...

The chief beauty about timeis that you cannot waste it in advance.The next year, the next day, the n...

The parents exist to teach the child but also they must learn what the child has to teach them and...

Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.

without the power to concentrate thatis to say, without the power to dictate to the brain its task a...