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
home mind problem
Only a very gifted mind could cope singly with all the problems which present themselves in the perfecting of a home.
stupid sleep people
Most people sleep themselves stupid.
children book eye
The only way to write a great book is to write it with the eyes of a child who sees things for the first time.
essentials efficient-work method
A sense of the value of time... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.
miracle raw-materials affair
Time is the inexplicable raw material of everything. With it, all is possible, without it nothing. The supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it.
true-friend achievement likes
A true friend is one who likes you despite your achievements.
cat thinking fire
I think it rather fine, this necessity for the tense bracing of the will before anything worth doing can be done. I rather like it myself. I feel it is to be the chief thing that differentiates me from the cat by the fire.
marriage men careers
During a long and varied career as a bachelor, I have noticed that marriage is the death of politeness between a man and a woman.
optimism pessimism pessimist
Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
men may literature
Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely
faith mind mystical
To my mind the most poignant mystical exhoration ever written is "Be still and know that I am God."
procrastination tasks cost
Concentrate on something useful. Having decided to achieve a task, achieve it at all costs.
mind bears recess
No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.
communication voice tone
Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by tone of voice.