Quotes by Arnold Bennett

A cause may be inconvenient, but its magnificent. Its like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it. (Arnold Bennett)

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)

A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating. (Arnold Bennett)

Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened. (Arnold Bennett)

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

Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it. (Arnold Bennett)

Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own. (Arnold Bennett)

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)

Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others. (Arnold Bennett)

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)