Arnold Bennett
Arnold Bennett
Enoch Arnold Bennettwas an English writer. He is best known as a novelist, but he also worked in other fields such as journalism, propaganda and film...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth27 May 1867
beer saxophone spirit
The saxophone is the embodied spirit of beer.
stupid worry brain
Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.
love investment cents
Make love to every woman you meet; if you get five per cent of your outlay it's a good investment.
life sacrifice effort
The most important preliminary to the task of arranging one's life so that one may live fully and comfortably within one's daily budget of 24 hours is the calm realization of the extreme difficulty of the task, of the sacrifices and the endless effort which it demands.
ideas firsts bricks
You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas . . . You cannot make bricks without straw.
home mind problem
Only a very gifted mind could cope singly with all the problems which present themselves in the perfecting of a home.
stupid sleep people
Most people sleep themselves stupid.
children book eye
The only way to write a great book is to write it with the eyes of a child who sees things for the first time.
essentials efficient-work method
A sense of the value of time... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.
miracle raw-materials affair
Time is the inexplicable raw material of everything. With it, all is possible, without it nothing. The supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it.
true-friend achievement likes
A true friend is one who likes you despite your achievements.
cat thinking fire
I think it rather fine, this necessity for the tense bracing of the will before anything worth doing can be done. I rather like it myself. I feel it is to be the chief thing that differentiates me from the cat by the fire.
marriage men careers
During a long and varied career as a bachelor, I have noticed that marriage is the death of politeness between a man and a woman.
optimism pessimism pessimist
Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.