Arnold Bennett

It is not until an age has receded into history, and all its mediocrity has dropped away from it, that we can see it as it is — as a group of men of genius. We forget the immense amount of twaddle that the great epochs produced.

— 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

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

— Arnold Bennett

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

— 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

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.

— 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 price of justice is eternal publicity.

— 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

Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They can't give their entire attention to it.

— 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

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

A prig is a pompous fool who has gone out for a ceremonial walk, and without knowing it has lost an important part of his attire, namely, his sense of humour.

— Arnold Bennett

We never shall have any more time. We have, and we have always had, all the time there is.

— Arnold Bennett

And, having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.

— Arnold Bennett

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

— Arnold Bennett

Money is far commoner than time. When one reflects, one perceives that money is just about the commonest thing there is.

— Arnold Bennett

The proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.

— Arnold Bennett

The chief beauty about time

— Arnold Bennett