The most important preliminary to the task of arranging one's life so that one may live fully and comfortably within one's daily… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by tone of voice. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
The real Tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
“You wake up in the morning, and lo! your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
The manner in which one single ray of light, one single precious hint, will clarify and energize the whole mental life of… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored; that is to say,… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
“without the power to concentrate that is to say, without the power to dictate to the brain its task and to ensure… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
“If a man makes two-thirds of his existence subservient to one-third, for which admittedly he has no absolutely feverish zest, how can… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
Which of us is not saying to himself which of us has not been saying to himself all his life: " I… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
If you imagine that you will be able to achieve your ideal by ingeniously planning out a timetable with a pen on… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
“The manner of his life was of no importance. What affected her was that he had once been young. That he had… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
Prepare to live by all means, but for Heaven's sake do not forget to live. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
“...a life in which conduct does not fairly well accord with principles is a silly life; and that conduct can only be… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
If you've ever really been poor you remain poor at heart all your life. I've often walked when I could very well… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
You wake up in the morning, and lo! your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the… — 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