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
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.
mistake done belief
All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.
sleep men legs
One of the chief things which my typical man has to learn is that the mental faculties are capable of a continuous hard activity; they do not tire like an arm or a leg. All they want is change - not rest, except in sleep.
reading people theatre
Nearly all bookish people are snobs, and especially the more enlightened among them. They are apt to assume that if a writer has immense circulation, if he is enjoyed by plain persons, and if he can fill several theatres at once, he cannont possibly be worth reading and merits only indifference and disdain.
jobs husband whole
Being a husband is a whole-time job.
mom mother clever
Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
book people
As a rule people don't collect books; they let books collect themselves.
giving evolution schemes
I ought to reflect again and again, and yet again, that the beings that I have to steer are just as inevitable in the scheme of evolution as I am myself; have just as much right to be themselves as I am entitled to; and they all deserve from me as much sympathy as I give to myself.
world opinion strange
Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.
reality heaven secret
Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.