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
life mean heaven
Prepare to live by all means, but for Heaven's sake do not forget to live.
life light intellectual
The manner in which one single ray of light, one single precious hint, will clarify and energize the whole mental life of him who receives it, is among the most wonderful and heavenly of intellectual phenomena.
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.
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.
change moving-on life-changing
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
difficult faithful mar properly public reputation seriously
It is difficult to make a reputation, but it is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made - so faithful is the public
cannot english-novelist entire husbands
Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it.
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.
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.
writing echoes oneself
To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking.
artist moments
At moments we are all artists.
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.
morning time wake-up
You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.
birthday men years
A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.