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Arnold Bennett Quotes

Arnold Bennett Quotes & Quotations
Name:
Arnold Bennett
Type:
Novelist
Nationality:
English
Birth day:
May 27
Birth year:
1867

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    Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened. Arnold-BennettArnold Bennett
  • 2
    Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it. Arnold-BennettArnold Bennett
  • 3
    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. Arnold-BennettArnold Bennett
  • 4
    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. Arnold-BennettArnold Bennett
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    If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living. Arnold-BennettArnold Bennett
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    It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top. Arnold-BennettArnold Bennett
  • 7
    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-BennettArnold Bennett
  • 8
    Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like. Arnold-BennettArnold Bennett
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    The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is. Arnold-BennettArnold Bennett
  • 10
    The moment you're born you're done for. Arnold-BennettArnold Bennett
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    The price of justice is eternal publicity. Arnold-BennettArnold Bennett
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    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-BennettArnold Bennett
  • 13
    We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful. Arnold-BennettArnold Bennett
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    Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission. Arnold-BennettArnold Bennett