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
hours leafs turns
You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.
universe
You are not in charge of the universe; you are in charge of yourself.
too-much littles human-nature
Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.
motivational new-year lying
The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.
book reading men
Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.
worry trying melancholy
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.
inspirational self-confidence gains
The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.
reading people theatre
Nearly all bookish people are snobs, and especially the more enlightened among them. They are apt to assume that if a writer has immense circulation, if he is enjoyed by plain persons, and if he can fill several theatres at once, he cannont possibly be worth reading and merits only indifference and disdain.
hope media long
Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.
essentials efficient-work method
A sense of the value of time... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.
faith mind mystical
To my mind the most poignant mystical exhoration ever written is "Be still and know that I am God."
people dignity stature
It is only people of small stature who have to stand on their dignity.
life mean heaven
Prepare to live by all means, but for Heaven's sake do not forget to live.
marriage men careers
During a long and varied career as a bachelor, I have noticed that marriage is the death of politeness between a man and a woman.