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
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.
life happiness happy
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.
friendship god judging
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
hours leafs turns
You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.
motivational new-year lying
The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.
universe
You are not in charge of the universe; you are in charge of yourself.
worry trying melancholy
The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.
book reading men
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.