Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic. Arnold Bennett More Quotes by Arnold Bennett More Quotes From Arnold Bennett You can turn over a new leaf every hour Arnold Bennett leafsturnshours The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles. Arnold Bennett springinspirationalbelieve I do want an expensive honeymoon. Not because I'm extravagant, but because a honeymoon is a solemn, important thing ... a symbol. And it ought to be done -- well, adequately. Arnold Bennett importantdonewant The price of Justice is eternal publicity. Arnold Bennett publicityeternityjustice No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind. Arnold Bennett recessbearsmind 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 testscallingfirsts Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism. Arnold Bennett pessimismpessimistoptimism You wake up in the morning, and lo! your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. It is unstealable. And no one receives either more or less than you receive. Arnold Bennett good-morningpursestime Which of us is not saying to himself which of us has not been saying to himself all his life: " I shall alter that when I have a little more time"? We never shall have any more time. We have, and we have always had, all the time there is. Arnold Bennett more-timelittles 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 marsfaithfulreputation A sense of the value of time... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry. Arnold Bennett efficient-workmethodessentials Most people sleep themselves stupid. Arnold Bennett stupidsleeppeople One of the chief things which my typical man has to learn is that the mental faculties are capable of a continuous hard activity; they do not tire like an arm or a leg. All they want is change - not rest, except in sleep. Arnold Bennett typicalsleepmen I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything. Arnold Bennett friends-and-enemiespoetry-isenemy There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump. Arnold Bennett methodnervesmagic The makers of literature are those who have seen and felt the miraculous interestingness of the universe. If you have formed...literary taste...your life will be one long ecstasy of denying that the world is a dull place. Arnold Bennett literaturelongworld 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 timewayneeds Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her; she knows by a process of the intellect; but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgin's lot. Arnold Bennett motherjoysex A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating. Arnold Bennett birthdayretirementyears It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable. Arnold Bennett madpaincrazy
