The proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour. Arnold Bennett More Quotes by Arnold Bennett More Quotes From Arnold Bennett 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 spring inspirational believe 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 important done want The price of Justice is eternal publicity. Arnold Bennett publicity eternity justice No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind. Arnold Bennett recess bears mind 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 tests calling firsts Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism. Arnold Bennett pessimism pessimist optimism 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-morning purses time 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-time littles 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 mars faithful reputation 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-work method essentials Most people sleep themselves stupid. Arnold Bennett stupid sleep people 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 typical sleep men I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything. Arnold Bennett friends-and-enemies poetry-is enemy There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump. Arnold Bennett method nerves magic 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 literature long world 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 time way needs 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 mother joy sex A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating. Arnold Bennett birthday retirement years It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable. Arnold Bennett mad pain crazy The war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast. Arnold Bennett war people years
