British novelist & playwright (1867-1931)
The manner of his life was of no importance. What affected her was that he had once been young. That he had grown old, and was now dead. That was all. Youth and vigour had come to that. Youth and vigour always came to that. Everything came to that.
ARNOLD BENNETT
The Old Wives' Tale
A man's duty is to keep his end up.
ARNOLD BENNETT
How to Make the Best of Life
Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.
ARNOLD BENNETT
The Best of Arnold Bennett
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.
ARNOLD BENNETT
Self and Self-Management
You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.
ARNOLD BENNETT
How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
Humanity walks ever on a thin crust over terrific abysses.
ARNOLD BENNETT
The Old Wives' Tale
The foundation of England's greatness is that Englishmen hate to look fools.
ARNOLD BENNETT
Tales of the Five Towns
A failure or so, in itself, would not matter, if it did not incur a loss of self-esteem and of self-confidence. But just as nothing succeeds like success, so nothing fails like failure.
ARNOLD BENNETT
How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
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.
ARNOLD BENNETT
The Journal of Arnold Bennett
Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.
ARNOLD BENNETT
The Title
The price of justice is eternal publicity.
ARNOLD BENNETT
"Secret Trials", Things That Have Interested Me
If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.
ARNOLD BENNETT
How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom, and behold it (as it were) for the first time; in its right, authentic colors; without making comparisons.
ARNOLD BENNETT
The Journal of Arnold Bennett
Yes books are valuable. But not reading of books will take the place of a daily, candid, honest examination of what one has recently done, and what one is about to do -- of a steady looking at one's self in the face (disconcerting though the sight may be).
ARNOLD BENNETT
How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
The artist who is too sensitive for contacts with the non-artistic world is thereby too sensitive for his vocation, and fit only to fall into gentle ecstasies over the work of artists less sensitive than himself.
ARNOLD BENNETT
The Author's Craft
Worry sits on the countenance of nearly every season ticket-holder in the morning train and in the evening train. You see it in the streets, offices, and restaurants, and you can even meet it in the country lanes. The habit of worrying infallibly leaves its mark, and the mark is there for all to notice.
ARNOLD BENNETT
How to Make the Best of Life