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Arnold Bennett Quotes

Arnold Bennett quotes

English Novelist May 27, 1867 – March 27, 1931

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Arnold Bennett quote: "All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the..."
All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do Arnold Bennett
Ardour in well-doing is a misleading and a treacherous thing. It cries out loudly for employment; you can't satisfy it at first; it wants more and more; it is eager to move mountains and divert the course of rivers. It isn't content till it perspires. And then, too often, when it feels the perspiration on its brow, it wearies all of a sudden and dies, without even putting itself to the trouble of saying, "I've had enough of this. Arnold Bennett
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. Arnold Bennett
Arnold Bennett quote: "Any change, even a change for the better, is always..."
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. Arnold Bennett
Readers of a certain class are apt to call good the plot of that story in which "you can't tell what is going to happen next." But in some of the most tedious novels ever written you can't tell what is going to happen next--and you don't care a fig what is going to happen next. Arnold Bennett
Arnold Bennett quote: "Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not..."
Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like. Arnold Bennett
Arnold Bennett quote: "Its language is a language which the soul alone understands,..."
Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate. Arnold Bennett
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
Arnold Bennett quote: "If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is..."
If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living. Arnold Bennett
There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul. Arnold Bennett
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. Arnold Bennett
The public is a great actuality, like war. If you are a creative and creating artist, you cannot ignore it, though it can ignore you. Arnold Bennett
Arnold Bennett quote: "Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope..."
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
You probably think of the orchestra as a heterogeneous mass of instrumentsproducing a confused agreeable massof sound. You do not listen for details because you have never trained your ears to listen to details. Arnold Bennett
Arnold Bennett quote: "Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many..."
Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it. Arnold Bennett

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