Arnold Bennett
Arnold Bennett
Enoch Arnold Bennettwas an English writer. He is best known as a novelist, but he also worked in other fields such as journalism, propaganda and film...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth27 May 1867
jobs husband giving
Being a husband is a whole time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it.
stupid worry brain
Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.
love investment cents
Make love to every woman you meet; if you get five per cent of your outlay it's a good investment.
life sacrifice effort
The most important preliminary to the task of arranging one's life so that one may live fully and comfortably within one's daily budget of 24 hours is the calm realization of the extreme difficulty of the task, of the sacrifices and the endless effort which it demands.
ideas firsts bricks
You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas . . . You cannot make bricks without straw.
stupid sleep people
Most people sleep themselves stupid.
true-friend achievement likes
A true friend is one who likes you despite your achievements.
cat thinking fire
I think it rather fine, this necessity for the tense bracing of the will before anything worth doing can be done. I rather like it myself. I feel it is to be the chief thing that differentiates me from the cat by the fire.
mind bears recess
No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.
life happiness happy
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 that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
justice publicity eternity
The price of Justice is eternal publicity.
money littles amusing
Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.
creativity artist soul
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 a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.
funny high-heels suffering
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.