The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them, they might as well cut bread and… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
To my mind the most poignant mystical exhoration ever written is "Be still and know that I am God." — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
“What then? Are we only to buy the books that we read? The question has merely to be thus bluntly put, and it answers… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
The most important preliminary to the task of arranging one's life so that one may live fully and comfortably within one's daily budget of… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
You are not in charge of the universe; you are in charge of yourself. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
“When one has thoroughly got imbued into one's head the leading truth that nothing happens without a cause, one grows not only large-minded, but… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
“The public is a great actuality, like war. If you are a creative and creating artist, you cannot ignore it, though it can ignore… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
