Arnold Bennett Quotes - Famous Quotes by Arnold Bennett
Born: 1867-05-27
Died: 1931-05-27
Arnold Bennett Biography
'And yet,' demanded Councilor Barlow, 'what's he done Has he ever done a day's work in his life What great cause is he identified with' 'He's identified,' said the first speaker, 'with the great cause of cheering us all up.'
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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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A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.
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Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.
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Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
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Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
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Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.
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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.
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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.
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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
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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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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.
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The moment you're born you're done for.
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The real tradegy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.
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