Arnold Bennett

If you've ever really been poor you remain poor at heart all your life. I've often walked when I could very well…

— Arnold Bennett

The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child…

— Arnold Bennett

Which of us is not saying to himself which of us has not been saying to himself all his life: " I…

— Arnold Bennett

A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for…

— Arnold Bennett

Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness. If men and women practiced…

— 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…

— Arnold Bennett

“without the power to concentrate that is to say, without the power to dictate to the brain its task and to ensure…

— Arnold Bennett

One of the chief things which my typical man has to learn is that the mental faculties are capable of a continuous…

— Arnold Bennett

Women are strange and incomprehensible, a device invented by Providence to keep the wit of man well sharpened by constant employment

— Arnold Bennett

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be…

— Arnold Bennett

You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas . . . You cannot make bricks without straw.

— Arnold Bennett

“You wake up in the morning, and lo! your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the…

— Arnold Bennett

I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them, they might as well cut bread and…

— Arnold Bennett