Arnold Bennett

Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.

— Arnold Bennett

All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.

— Arnold Bennett

Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely

— Arnold Bennett

Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.

— Arnold Bennett

“France is the land where dalliance is so passionately understood.”

— Arnold Bennett

The proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.

— Arnold Bennett

Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.

— Arnold Bennett

“Most people who are ruined are ruined by attempting too much.”

— Arnold Bennett

The manner in which one single ray of light, one single precious hint, will clarify and energize the whole mental life of…

— Arnold Bennett

“The artist who is too sensitive for contacts with the non-artistic world is thereby too sensitive for his vocation, and fit only…

— Arnold Bennett

The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom…

— Arnold Bennett

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it…

— Arnold Bennett

Time is the inexplicable raw material of everything. With it, all is possible, without it nothing. The supply of time is truly…

— Arnold Bennett

Anthology construction is one of the pleasantest hobbies that a person who is not mad about golf and bridge - that is…

— Arnold Bennett

“...happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of…

— Arnold Bennett

It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.

— Arnold Bennett

Nearly all bookish people are snobs, and especially the more enlightened among them. They are apt to assume that if a writer…

— Arnold Bennett

The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour…

— Arnold Bennett

If you imagine that you will be able to achieve your ideal by ingeniously planning out a timetable with a pen on…

— Arnold Bennett

“At length he spoke; without moving or lifting up his face. “Here again!” he said. “Here again,” replied the Phantom. “I see…

— Arnold Bennett

“Ardour in well-doing is a misleading and a treacherous thing. It cries out loudly for employment; you can't satisfy it at first;…

— Arnold Bennett

I ought to reflect again and again, and yet again, that the beings that I have to steer are just as inevitable…

— 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…

— Arnold Bennett

Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are…

— Arnold Bennett

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.

— Arnold Bennett

The war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast.

— Arnold Bennett

Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.

— Arnold Bennett

Make love to every woman you meet; if you get five per cent of your outlay it's a good investment

— Arnold Bennett

Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.

— Arnold Bennett

Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.

— Arnold Bennett

No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.

— Arnold Bennett

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

— Arnold Bennett

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

— Arnold Bennett

If you've ever really been poor, you remain poor at heart all your life.

— Arnold Bennett

There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.

— Arnold Bennett

The pleasure of doing a thing in the same way at the same time every day, and savoring it, should be noted.

— Arnold Bennett

The test of a first-rate work, and a test of your sincerity in calling it a first-rate work, is that you finish…

— Arnold Bennett

Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.

— Arnold Bennett

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

— Arnold Bennett

It is only people of small stature who have to stand on their dignity.

— Arnold Bennett