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
mistake solitude four
Far from the madding crowd is a mistake on a honeymoon.... Solitude! Wherever you are, if you're on a honeymoon, you'll get quite as much solitude as is good for you every twenty-four hours. Constant change and distraction -- that's what wants arranging for. Solitude will arrange itself.
artist moments
At moments we are all artists.
mistake done belief
All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.
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.
book people
As a rule people don't collect books; they let books collect themselves.
giving evolution schemes
I ought to reflect again and again, and yet again, that the beings that I have to steer are just as inevitable in the scheme of evolution as I am myself; have just as much right to be themselves as I am entitled to; and they all deserve from me as much sympathy as I give to myself.
world opinion strange
Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.
reality heaven secret
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.
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.