Quotes from A. C. Benson

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Land of hope and glory, mother of the free,How shall we extol thee, who are born of thee?Wider still and wider shall thy bounds be set;God, who made thee mighty, make theemightier yet.

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

All the best stories are but one story in reality--the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.

A well begun is half ended.

I never enter a new company without the hope that I may discover a friend, perhaps the friend, sitting there with an expectant smile. That hope survives a thousand disappointments.

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.

People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.

The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn't your real life.

Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.

I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.

All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

Land of hope and glory, Mother of the Free How shall we extol thee,who are borne of thee? Wider still and wider shall thy bounds be set; God who made thee mighty, make thee mightier yet.

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.