"The makers of literature are those who have……" — Arnold Bennett
"The makers of literature are those who have seen and felt the miraculous interestingness of the universe. If you have formed...literary taste...your life will be one long ecstasy of denying that the world is a dull place."
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82 Quotes by Arnold Bennett
Arnold Bennett has 82 quotes on this site.
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Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
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Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.
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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior…
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We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served…
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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one…
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A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to…
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Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
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Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.
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Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of…
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A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin…
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We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time…
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There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its…
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More Denying Quotes
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one of 370 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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All is amiss. Love is dying, faith's defying, heart's denying.
— Richard Barnfield
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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I'm not denying that depression can be spiritually induced. Guilt from having wronged and hurt others can bring it on.…
— Tony Campolo
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If you say you're not a feminist, you're almost denying your own existence.
— Margaret Cho
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I don't think we should be about the business of denying voters in Michigan and Florida the right to be…
— Hillary Clinton
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Our immigration policy is focussed in four areas: First, strengthening border control; second, protecting American jobs by enforcing laws against…
— William J. Clinton
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It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be…
— James Madison
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The common goal of 22 million Afro-Americans is respect as human beings, the God-given right to be a human being.…
— Malcolm X
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The leaves are falling, falling as from way off, as though far gardens withered in the skies; they are falling…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.
— Michel de Montaigne
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Think of a lifeless forest in which a small plant pushes its head upward, out of the ruin. In our…
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble.
— George Santayana
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