Arnold Bennett Quotes

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• Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
• Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.
• It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
• We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week…
• Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels…
• A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.
• Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
• Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.
• Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of…
• A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.
• We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.
• There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours.…
• If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.
• Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.
• Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.
• To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held…
• It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.
• All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.
• Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read,…
• The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very…

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