All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.
—Arnold Bennett
Topics: Mistakes
No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recesses of another mind.
—Arnold Bennett
Topics: The Mind, Mind
To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.
—Arnold Bennett
Topics: The Artist, Inspiration
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 Bennett
Topics: Joy, Happiness
A sense of the value of time … is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.
—Arnold Bennett
Topics: Time Management, Value of a Day
The real tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort, who never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.
—Arnold Bennett
Topics: Effort
Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
—Arnold Bennett
Topics: Pessimism
The most important preliminary to the task of arranging one’s life so that one may live fully and comfortably within one’s daily budget of 24 hours is the calm realization of the extreme difficulty of the task, of the sacrifices and the endless effort which it demands.
—Arnold Bennett
Topics: Life
Well, my deliberate opinion is – it’s a jolly strange world.
—Arnold Bennett
Topics: Opinions
Always behave as if nothing had happened no matter what has happened.
—Arnold Bennett
Topics: Manners
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
—Arnold Bennett
Topics: Confidence, Accomplishment, Assurance, General, Goals, Achievement, Success & Failure
Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.
—Arnold Bennett
Topics: Authors & Writing, Writing, Writers
Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.
—Arnold Bennett
Topics: Creativity
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
Topics: Worry, Understanding
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
—Arnold Bennett
Topics: Change
You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.
—Arnold Bennett
Topics: Time Management, Time
The war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast.
—Arnold Bennett
Topics: Aging
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 Bennett
Topics: Books, Reading
Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.
—Arnold Bennett
Topics: Character
If egotism means a terrific interest in one’s self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.
—Arnold Bennett
Topics: Ego, Egotism
It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.
—Arnold Bennett
Topics: Effort, Adversity, Goals
It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.
—Arnold Bennett
Topics: Pleasure
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
Topics: The Past
Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.
—Arnold Bennett
Topics: Hell
It is well, when one is judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
—Arnold Bennett
Topics: Friendship, Judgment, Friends and Friendship, Judging
We shall never have more time. We have, and have always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until to-morrow. Keep going day in and out. Concentrate on something useful. Having decided to achieve a task, achieve it at all costs.
—Arnold Bennett
Topics: Time, Achievements, Productivity, Value of Time, Time Management
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
Topics: Planning
In search of ideas I spent yesterday morning in walking about, and went to the stores and bought things in four departments. A wonderful and delightful way of spending time. I think this sort of activity does stimulate creative ideas.
—Arnold Bennett
Topics: Ideas
The price of justice is eternal publicity.
—Arnold Bennett
Topics: Justice
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
Topics: Planning
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- Israel Zangwill English Writer, Political Activist
- Doris Lessing British Novelist, Poet
- Dodie Smith American Author
- Gladys Bronwyn Stern British Writer
- Graham Greene British Novelist
- Agatha Christie British Novelist
- Dorothy L. Sayers English Novelist, Playwright
- H. G. Wells English Novelist, Historian
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon English Novelist
- Beryl Bainbridge British Novelist
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