I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them, they might as well cut bread and butter. Unless you give at least 45 minutes of careful, fatiguing reflection upon what you are reading, your… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
The second suggestion is to think as well as to read. I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them they might just as well cut bread-and-butter. They take to reading as better men… — 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
“Good clothes, when put to the test, survive a change in fortune, as a Roman arch survives the luxury of departed empire.” — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by tone of voice. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
During a long and varied career as a bachelor, I have noticed that marriage is the death of politeness between a man and a… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
