Arnold Bennett Short Quotes

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The price of justice is eternal publicity.

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

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His opinion of himself, having once risen, remained at 'set fair'.

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Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.

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

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

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

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The foundation of England's greatness is that Englishmen hate to look fools.

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

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

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

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

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

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Make love to every woman you meet. If you get five percent on your outlays it's a good investment.

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

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

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

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'What great cause is he identified with?' 'He's identified…with the great cause of cheering us all up.'

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

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

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Literature's always a good card to play for Honours. It makes people think that Cabinet ministers are educated.

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A test of a first-rate work, and a test of your sincerity in calling it a first-rate work, is that you finish it.

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The proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.

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Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They can't give their entire attention to it.

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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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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.

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'Ye can call it influenza if ye like,' said Mrs Machin. 'There was no influenza in my young days. We called a cold a cold.'

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

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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.

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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.

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