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Arnold Bennett quotes: Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened. Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.
Arnold Bennett quotes: Dazzling truth that you never will have "more time," since you already have all the time there is - you Dazzling truth that you never will have "more time," since you already have all the time there is - you
Arnold Bennett quotes: The chief beauty about the constant supply of time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The chief beauty about the constant supply of time is that you cannot waste it in advance.
Arnold Bennett quotes: One-act [plays] are not strikingly remunerative, but, on the other hand, the veriest dullard could not spend more than a week in writing one. One-act [plays] are not strikingly remunerative, but, on the other hand, the veriest dullard could not spend more than a week in writing one.
Arnold Bennett quotes: Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan. Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan.
Arnold Bennett quotes: To be loved without a shred of any reserve is a necessity for me. To be loved without a shred of any reserve is a necessity for me.
Arnold Bennett quotes: It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top. It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.
Arnold Bennett quotes: I can't have you making tea for me. It's not decent. I can't have you making tea for me. It's not decent.
Arnold Bennett quotes: Time is the explicable raw material of everything. Time is the explicable raw material of everything.
Arnold Bennett quotes: I hate being asked what I want. Because I never know. I hate being asked what I want. Because I never know.
Arnold Bennett quotes: Good clothes, when put to the test, survive a change in fortune, as a Roman arch survives the luxury of departed empire. Good clothes, when put to the test, survive a change in fortune, as a Roman arch survives the luxury of departed empire.
Arnold Bennett quotes: The war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast. The war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast.
Arnold Bennett quotes: Concentrate on something useful. Having decided to achieve a task, achieve it at all costs. Concentrate on something useful. Having decided to achieve a task, achieve it at all costs.
Arnold Bennett quotes: Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste. Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.
Arnold Bennett quotes: There grows in the North Country a certain kind of youth of whom it may be said that he is born to be a Londoner. There grows in the North Country a certain kind of youth of whom it may be said that he is born to be a Londoner.
Arnold Bennett quotes: I'm not ruthless. It's common sense that's ruthless. I'm not ruthless. It's common sense that's ruthless.
Arnold Bennett quotes: Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world. Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.
Arnold Bennett quotes: Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely
Arnold Bennett quotes: Humanity walks ever on a thin crust over terrific abysses. Humanity walks ever on a thin crust over terrific abysses.
Arnold Bennett quotes: The price of justice is eternal publicity. The price of justice is eternal publicity.
Arnold Bennett quotes: You can only waste the passing moment. You cannot waste to-morrow; it is kept for you. You can only waste the passing moment. You cannot waste to-morrow; it is kept for you.
Arnold Bennett quotes: Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion. Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.
Arnold Bennett quotes: As a rule people don't collect books; they let books collect themselves. As a rule people don't collect books; they let books collect themselves.
Arnold Bennett quotes: At moments we are all artists. At moments we are all artists.
Arnold Bennett quotes: Only a very gifted mind could cope singly with all the problems which present themselves in the perfecting of a home. Only a very gifted mind could cope singly with all the problems which present themselves in the perfecting of a home.
Arnold Bennett quotes: 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. 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.
Arnold Bennett quotes: 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. 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.
Arnold Bennett quotes: 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. 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 quotes: The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round. The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round.
Arnold Bennett quotes: The pleasure of doing a thing in the same way at the same time every day, and savoring it, should be noted. The pleasure of doing a thing in the same way at the same time every day, and savoring it, should be noted.
Arnold Bennett quotes: Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others. Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.
Arnold Bennett quotes: The test of a first-rate work, and a test of your sincerity in calling it a first-rate work, is that you finish it. The test of a first-rate work, and a test of your sincerity in calling it a first-rate work, is that you finish it.
Arnold Bennett quotes: There is no magic method of beginning ... Take hold of your nerves, and jump. There is no magic method of beginning ... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.
Arnold Bennett quotes: You are not in charge of the universe; you are in charge of yourself. You are not in charge of the universe; you are in charge of yourself.
Arnold Bennett quotes: 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. 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.
Arnold Bennett quotes: We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities. We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.
Arnold Bennett quotes: No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind. No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.
Arnold Bennett quotes: I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything. I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything.
Arnold Bennett quotes: You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas ... You cannot make bricks without straw. You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas ... You cannot make bricks without straw.
Arnold Bennett quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by tone of voice. Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by tone of voice.
Arnold Bennett quotes: A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating. A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.
Arnold Bennett quotes: Prepare to live by all means, but for Heaven's sake do not forget to live. Prepare to live by all means, but for Heaven's sake do not forget to live.
Arnold Bennett quotes: It is only people of small stature who have to stand on their dignity. It is only people of small stature who have to stand on their dignity.
Arnold Bennett quotes: The public is a great actuality, like war. If you are a creative and creating artist, you cannot ignore it, though it can ignore you. The public is a great actuality, like war. If you are a creative and creating artist, you cannot ignore it, though it can ignore you.
Arnold Bennett quotes: A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected. A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.
Arnold Bennett quotes: It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable. It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.
Arnold Bennett quotes: All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do. All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.
Arnold Bennett quotes: A sense of the value of time ... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry. A sense of the value of time ... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.
Arnold Bennett quotes: Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate. Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
Arnold Bennett quotes: I don't read my reviews, I measure them. I don't read my reviews, I measure them.
Arnold Bennett quotes: It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality. It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
Arnold Bennett quotes: If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living. If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.
Arnold Bennett quotes: The saxophone is the embodied spirit of beer. The saxophone is the embodied spirit of beer.
Arnold Bennett quotes: It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made so faithful is the public. It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made
so faithful is the public.
Arnold Bennett quotes: Any change, even a change for the better is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. Any change, even a change for the better is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
Arnold Bennett quotes: France is the land where dalliance is so passionately understood. France is the land where dalliance is so passionately understood.
Arnold Bennett quotes: The moment you're born you're done for. The moment you're born you're done for.
Arnold Bennett quotes: The proper, wise balancingof one's whole life may depend upon thefeasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour. 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 quotes: There was something magnificent in dire tragedy, in the terror of it, in the necessity which it laid upon everybody to behave nobly and efficiently. There was something magnificent in dire tragedy, in the terror of it, in the necessity which it laid upon everybody to behave nobly and efficiently.
Arnold Bennett quotes: Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity. Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.
Arnold Bennett quotes: Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it. Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it.
Arnold Bennett quotes: The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is. The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.
Arnold Bennett quotes: The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them
Arnold Bennett quotes: Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like. Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
Arnold Bennett quotes: Money is far commoner than time. When one reflects, one perceives that money is just about the commonest thing there is. Money is far commoner than time. When one reflects, one perceives that money is just about the commonest thing there is.
Arnold Bennett quotes: A man's powers ought not to be monopolised by his ordinary day's work. A man's powers ought not to be monopolised by his ordinary day's work.
Arnold Bennett quotes: 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. 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.
Arnold Bennett quotes: Make love to every woman you meet; if you get five per cent of your outlay it's a good investment. Make love to every woman you meet; if you get five per cent of your outlay it's a good investment.
Arnold Bennett quotes: Being a husband is a whole-time job. Being a husband is a whole-time job.
Arnold Bennett quotes: This place is a regular whispering-gallery. This place is a regular whispering-gallery.
Arnold Bennett quotes: Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own. Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.
Arnold Bennett quotes: A true friend is one who likes you despite your achievements. A true friend is one who likes you despite your achievements.
Arnold Bennett quotes: To my mind the most poignant mystical exhoration ever written is "Be still and know that I am God." To my mind the most poignant mystical exhoration ever written is "Be still and know that I am God."
Arnold Bennett quotes: Most people sleep themselves stupid. Most people sleep themselves stupid.
Arnold Bennett quotes: I am entirely convinced that what is more than anything else lacking in the life of the average well-intentioned man of to-day is the reflective mood. I am entirely convinced that what is more than anything else lacking in the life of the average well-intentioned man of to-day is the reflective mood.
Arnold Bennett quotes: Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission. Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

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