Quotes by : Arnold Bennett

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.

The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.

It is well when judging a friend to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior....

The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored; that is to say,....

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

The chief beauty about timeis that you cannot waste it in advance.The next year, the next day, the next....

A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.

without the power to concentrate thatis to say, without the power to dictate to the brain its task and....

The parents exist to teach the child but also they must learn what the child has to teach them and....

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