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
sleep men legs
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.
world opinion strange
Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.
mean self aquariums
If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.
real men effort
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 full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.
long literature world
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.
men doors bored
The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored; that is to say, he is not living.
past yield people
The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round.
war years people
The war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast.
inspiration ruts advantage
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.
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.
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.