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
birthday men years
A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.
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.
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.
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.
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.
men may literature
Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely
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.
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.
life mean heaven
Prepare to live by all means, but for Heaven's sake do not forget to live.
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.