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
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.
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.
time raw-materials materials
Time is the explicable raw material of everything.
time procrastination next-week
We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful.
life mean heaven
Prepare to live by all means, but for Heaven's sake do not forget to live.
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.
birthday men years
A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.
heart cost waste
If you've ever really been poor you remain poor at heart all your life. I've often walked when I could very well afford to take a taxi because I simply couldn't bring myself to waste the shilling it would cost.
mother sex joy
Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her; she knows by a process of the intellect; but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgin's lot.
art book reading
Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.
pain pleasure certain
It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.