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Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened. — Arnold Bennett

Dazzling truth that you never will have "more time," since you already have all the time there is - you — Arnold Bennett

The chief beauty about the constant supply of time is that you cannot waste it in advance. — Arnold Bennett

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

Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan. — Arnold Bennett

To be loved without a shred of any reserve is a necessity for me. — Arnold Bennett

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top. — Arnold Bennett

I can't have you making tea for me. It's not decent. — Arnold Bennett

Time is the explicable raw material of everything. — Arnold Bennett

I hate being asked what I want. Because I never know. — Arnold Bennett

Good clothes, when put to the test, survive a change in fortune, as a Roman arch survives the luxury of departed empire. — Arnold Bennett

The war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast. — Arnold Bennett

Concentrate on something useful. Having decided to achieve a task, achieve it at all costs. — Arnold Bennett

Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste. — Arnold Bennett

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

I'm not ruthless. It's common sense that's ruthless. — Arnold Bennett

Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world. — Arnold Bennett

Humanity walks ever on a thin crust over terrific abysses. — Arnold Bennett

Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely — Arnold Bennett

I hate England and its hopelessness. I hate [Arnold] Bennett's resignation. Tragedy ought really to be a great big kick at misery. — D.H. Lawrence

The price of justice is eternal publicity. — Arnold Bennett

You can only waste the passing moment. You cannot waste to-morrow; it is kept for you. — Arnold Bennett

Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion. — Arnold Bennett

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

At moments we are all artists. — Arnold Bennett

Only a very gifted mind could cope singly with all the problems which present themselves in the perfecting of a home. — Arnold Bennett

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

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

There is no magic method of beginning ... Take hold of your nerves, and jump. — Arnold Bennett

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

The pleasure of doing a thing in the same way at the same time every day, and savoring it, should be noted. — Arnold Bennett

Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others. — Arnold Bennett

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

As a rule people don't collect books; they let books collect themselves. — Arnold Bennett

You are not in charge of the universe; you are in charge of yourself. — Arnold Bennett

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

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

No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind. — Arnold Bennett

I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything. — Arnold Bennett

You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas ... You cannot make bricks without straw. — Arnold Bennett

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

Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by tone of voice. — Arnold Bennett

A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating. — Arnold Bennett

Prepare to live by all means, but for Heaven's sake do not forget to live. — Arnold Bennett

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality. — Arnold Bennett

If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living. — Arnold Bennett

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

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

It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable. — Arnold Bennett

All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do. — Arnold Bennett

A sense of the value of time ... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry. — Arnold Bennett

Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate. — Arnold Bennett

I don't read my reviews, I measure them. — Arnold Bennett

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission. — Arnold Bennett

It is only people of small stature who have to stand on their dignity. — Arnold Bennett

The saxophone is the embodied spirit of beer. — Arnold Bennett

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

Any change, even a change for the better is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. — Arnold Bennett

France is the land where dalliance is so passionately understood. — Arnold Bennett

The moment you're born you're done for. — Arnold Bennett

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

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

Make love to every woman you meet; if you get five per cent of your outlay it's a good investment. — Arnold Bennett

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

The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is. — Arnold Bennett

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

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like. — Arnold Bennett

Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed. — Hugh Leonard

Money is far commoner than time. When one reflects, one perceives that money is just about the commonest thing there is. — Arnold Bennett

A man's powers ought not to be monopolised by his ordinary day's work. — Arnold Bennett

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

Being a husband is a whole-time job. — Arnold Bennett

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity. — Arnold Bennett

This place is a regular whispering-gallery. — Arnold Bennett

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

A true friend is one who likes you despite your achievements. — Arnold Bennett

To my mind the most poignant mystical exhoration ever written is "Be still and know that I am God." — Arnold Bennett

Most people sleep themselves stupid. — Arnold Bennett

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