Arnold Bennett

The moment you're born you're done for.

Arnold Bennett


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.

Arnold Bennett


The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.

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


A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.

Arnold Bennett


Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Arnold Bennett


Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.

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


Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Arnold Bennett


Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.

Arnold Bennett

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