Quote by Arnold Bennett Download Open image ““The foundation of England's greatness is that Englishmen hate to look fools.”” — Arnold Bennett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“It makes me sick,the blindness, deadness, out-of-dateness, stodginess and, yes, sheer jealous malice of the great bulk of England.” — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“How do you like our England, you will say? Believe me when I assure you that I have never liked anything as much before.” — Erasmus Roterodamus Copy Share Image
“By the early seventies I had become an Englishman – that is to say, I hated England just as much as half of my… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“The spectacles of pain and disgrace I see around me, the ignorance, the unthinking vice, the poverty and the lack of hope, and oh, the rain—the rain that falls on England and rots the grain, puts out the light in the man’s eye and the light of learning too, for who can reason if Oxford is a giant puddle and… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share
“England is home to one of the most unattractive people on earth!" He glared at Walker. "You are the perfect example.” — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“This is certainly a beautiful country! In all England, I do not believe that I could have fixed on a situation so completely removed… — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
“Londoners had no particular objection to the King making a fool of himself, but they became indignant when it became evident that he wished… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Every Anglophile has his own private England which is, of course, unrecognizable to the English.” — Mark Dery Copy Share Image
“Likewise, while the men and women were no more naturally attractive than their English counterparts, they dressed with an assurance and attention to detail… — Kathleen Tessaro Copy Share Image
“Poor England. Too much history for its acreage. Years grow inwards here, like my toenails.” — David Mitchell 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
