Writer Quotes by Arnold Bennett

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

Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.

— Arnold Bennett

To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking.

— Arnold Bennett

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

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

— Arnold Bennett

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

— Arnold Bennett

“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

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

You are not in charge of the universe; you are in charge of yourself.

— Arnold Bennett

“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

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

— Arnold Bennett

“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

“Good clothes, when put to the test, survive a change in fortune, as a Roman arch survives the luxury of departed empire.”

— Arnold Bennett

Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by tone of voice.

— Arnold Bennett

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