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
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.
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.
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.
miracle raw-materials affair
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, an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it.
enemy friends-and-enemies poetry-is
I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything.
faithful mars reputation
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.
time needs way
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.
littles more-time
Which of us is not saying to himself which of us has not been saying to himself all his life: " I shall alter that when I have a little more time"? We never shall have any more time. We have, and we have always had, all the time there is.
suicide procrastination funny-procrastination
Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan.
confused thinking details
You probably think of the orchestra as a heterogeneous mass of instruments producing a confused agreeable mass of sound. You do not listen for details because you have never trained your ears to listen to details.
matter behave ifs
Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.
communication voice tone
Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by tone of voice.