Quotes from Arnold Bennett

We shall never have more time. We have, and have always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going day in and day out. Concentrate on something useful. Having decided to achieve a task, achieve it at all costs.

What a card! He's a rare 'un, no mistake.

Women grow old; women cease to learn; but men, never.

I hate all the arts! you say. My dear sir, I respect you more and more.

The man who is imbued with the idea of development, of continuous cause and effect, perceives in the sea an element which in the day-before-yesterday of geology was vapour, which yesterday was boiling, and which to-morrow will inevitably be ice.

Mr. Penfound's Two Burglars, Midnight at the Grand Babylon, The Police Station, The Adventure of the Prima Donna, The Episode in Room 222, Saturday to Monday, A Dinner at the Louvre

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.

No matter what has happened, always behave as if nothing had happened.

We shall never have more time. We have, and have always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until to-morrow. Keep going. ... Concentrate on something useful.

The real Tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.

A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.

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.

Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.

A sense of the value of time... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.

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.

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

It is only people of small stature who have to stand on their dignity.

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

A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.

All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.

The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round.

Women are strange and incomprehensible, a device invented by Providence to keep the wit of man well sharpened by constant employment

Make love to every woman you meet; if you get five per cent of your outlay it's a good investment.

It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.