List of Arnold Bennett Quotes

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 Heaven An Effective Reality.

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 One Long Ecstasy Of Denying That The World Is A Dull Place.

Being A Husband Is A Whole-time Job.

It Is Difficult To Make A Reputation, But Is Even More Difficult Seriously To Mar A Reputation Once Properly Made --- So Faithful Is The Public.

Great Wealth May Be To Its Owner A Blessing Or A Curse. Alas! I Fear It Is Too Often The Latter. It Hardens The Heart, Blunts The Finer Susceptibilities, And Transforms Into A Fiend What Under More Favourable Circumstances Might Have Been A Human Being.

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 Do Not Tire Like An Arm Or A Leg. All They Want Is Change - Not Rest, Except In Sleep.

The War Years Count Double. Things And People Not Actively In Use Age Twice As Fast.

If You Imagine That You Will Be Able To Achieve Your Ideal By Ingeniously Planning Out A Timetable With A Pen On A Piece Of Paper, You Had Better Give Up Hope At Once.if You Are Not Prepared For Discouragements And Disillusions; If You Will Not Be Content With A Small Result For A Big Effort, Then Do Not Begin. Lie Down Again And Resume The Uneasy Doze Which You Call Your Existence.

Because Her Instinct Has Told Her, Or Because She Has Been Reliably Informed, The Faded Virgin Knows That The Supreme Joys Are Not For Her; She Knows By A Process Of The Intellect; But She Can Feel Her Deprivation No More Than The Young Mother Can Feel The Hardship Of The Virgin's Lot.

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.

You Can Only Acquire Really Useful General Ideas By First Acquiring Particular Ideas . . . You Cannot Make Bricks Without Straw.

Prepare To Live By All Means, But For Heaven's Sake Do Not Forget To Live.