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One Quotes by Arnold Bennett
- 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.
- 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.
- If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.
- The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.
- The manner in which one single ray of light, one single precious hint, will clarify and energize the whole mental life of him who receives…
- Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely
- A true friend is one who likes you despite your achievements.
- Time is the inexplicable raw material of everything. With it, all is possible, without it nothing. The supply of time is truly a daily miracle,…
- Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom and behold it, as…
- 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…
- The real Tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his…
- One of the chief things which my typical man has to learn is that the mental faculties are capable of a continuous hard activity; they…
- The proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.
- You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It…
- The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.
- Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom, and behold it (as…
- A sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities - is an…
- Anthology construction is one of the pleasantest hobbies that a person who is not mad about golf and bridge - that is to say, a…
More One Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Trust is the one most important base on which the beautiful building of strong friendship can be built. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle