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
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A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.
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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.
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The real Tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.
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The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored; that is to say, he is not living.
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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.
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Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely
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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.
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The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.
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The traveler, however virginal and enthusiastic, does not enjoy an unbroken ecstasy. He has periods of gloom, periods when he asks himself the object of all these exertions, and puts the question whether or not he is really experiencing pleasure. At such times he suspects that he is not seeing the right things, that the characteristic, the right aspects of these strange scenes are escaping him. He looks forward dully to the days of his holiday yet to pass, and wonders how he will dispose of them. He is disgusted because his money is not more, his command of the language so slight, and his capacity for enjoyment so limited.
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It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is best from the top
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It is difficult to make a reputation, but it is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made - so faithful is the public
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Women are strange and incomprehensible, a device invented by Providence to keep the wit of man well sharpened by constant employment
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Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it.
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It is well, when one is judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality