Top 80 Arnold Bennett Quotes (2024 Update)
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Arnold Bennett Quote: “I don’t read my reviews, I measure them.”

51. “I don’t read my reviews, I measure them.”

— Arnold Bennett

Arnold Bennett Quote: “To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking.”

52. “To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking.”

— Arnold Bennett

Arnold Bennett Quote: “I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them, they might as well cut bread and butter. Unless you give at least 45 minutes of careful, fatiguing reflection upon what you are reading, your minutes are chiefly wasted.”

53. “I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them, they might as well cut bread and butter. Unless you give at least 45 minutes of careful, fatiguing reflection upon what you are reading, your minutes are chiefly wasted.”

— Arnold Bennett

Arnold Bennett Quote: “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.”

54. “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.”

— Arnold Bennett

Arnold Bennett Quote: “Only a very gifted mind could cope singly with all the problems which present themselves in the perfecting of a home.”

55. “Only a very gifted mind could cope singly with all the problems which present themselves in the perfecting of a home.”

— Arnold Bennett

Arnold Bennett Quote: “Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her; she knows by a process of the intellect; but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgin’s lot.”

56. “Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her; she knows by a process of the intellect; but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgin’s lot.”

— Arnold Bennett

Arnold Bennett Quote: “Great wealth may be to its owner a blessing or a curse. Alas! I fear it is too often the latter. It hardens the heart, blunts the finer susceptibilities, and transforms into a fiend what under more favourable circumstances might have been a human being.”

57. “Great wealth may be to its owner a blessing or a curse. Alas! I fear it is too often the latter. It hardens the heart, blunts the finer susceptibilities, and transforms into a fiend what under more favourable circumstances might have been a human being.”

— Arnold Bennett

Arnold Bennett Quote: “In search of ideas I spent yesterday morning in walking about, and went to the stores and bought things in four departments. A wonderful and delightful way of spending time. I think this sort of activity does stimulate creative ideas.”

58. “In search of ideas I spent yesterday morning in walking about, and went to the stores and bought things in four departments. A wonderful and delightful way of spending time. I think this sort of activity does stimulate creative ideas.”

— Arnold Bennett

Arnold Bennett Quote: “I’m not ruthless. It’s common sense that’s ruthless.”

59. “I’m not ruthless. It’s common sense that’s ruthless.”

— Arnold Bennett

Arnold Bennett Quote: “Being a husband is a whole-time job.”

60. “Being a husband is a whole-time job.”

— Arnold Bennett

Arnold Bennett Quote: “The moment you’re born you’re done for.”

61. “The moment you’re born you’re done for.”

— Arnold Bennett

Arnold Bennett Quote: “Make love to every woman you meet; if you get five per cent of your outlay it’s a good investment.”

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

— Arnold Bennett

Arnold Bennett Quote: “The war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast.”

63. “The war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast.”

— Arnold Bennett

Arnold Bennett Quote: “I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything.”

64. “I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything.”

— Arnold Bennett

Arnold Bennett Quote: “If you’ve ever really been poor, you remain poor at heart all your life.”

65. “If you’ve ever really been poor, you remain poor at heart all your life.”

— Arnold Bennett

Arnold Bennett Quote: “Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom and behold it, as it were, for the first time.”

66. “Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom and behold it, as it were, for the first time.”

— Arnold Bennett

Arnold Bennett Quote: “There was something magnificent in dire tragedy, in the terror of it, in the necessity which it laid upon everybody to behave nobly and efficiently.”

67. “There was something magnificent in dire tragedy, in the terror of it, in the necessity which it laid upon everybody to behave nobly and efficiently.”

— Arnold Bennett

Arnold Bennett Quote: “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.”

68. “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

Arnold Bennett Quote: “I ought to reflect again and again, and yet again, that the beings that I have to steer are just as inevitable in the scheme of evolution as I am myself; have just as much right to be themselves as I am entitled to; and they all deserve from me as much sympathy as I give to myself.”

69. “I ought to reflect again and again, and yet again, that the beings that I have to steer are just as inevitable in the scheme of evolution as I am myself; have just as much right to be themselves as I am entitled to; and they all deserve from me as much sympathy as I give to myself.”

— Arnold Bennett

Arnold Bennett Quote: “The entire landscape was illuminated and transformed by these unique pyrotechnics of labour atoning for its grime, and dull, weird sounds, as of the breathings and sighings of gigantic nocturnal creatures, filled the enchanted air.”

70. “The entire landscape was illuminated and transformed by these unique pyrotechnics of labour atoning for its grime, and dull, weird sounds, as of the breathings and sighings of gigantic nocturnal creatures, filled the enchanted air.”

— Arnold Bennett

Arnold Bennett Quote: “And since nothing whatever happens to us outside our own brain; since nothing hurt us or gives us pleasure except within the brain, the supreme importance of being able to control what goes on in that mysterious brain is patent.”

71. “And since nothing whatever happens to us outside our own brain; since nothing hurt us or gives us pleasure except within the brain, the supreme importance of being able to control what goes on in that mysterious brain is patent.”

— Arnold Bennett

Arnold Bennett Quote: “As a rule people don’t collect books; they let books collect themselves.”

72. “As a rule people don’t collect books; they let books collect themselves.”

— Arnold Bennett

Arnold Bennett Quote: “Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.”

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

— Arnold Bennett

Arnold Bennett Quote: “The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored; that is to say, he is not living.”

74. “The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored; that is to say, he is not living.”

— Arnold Bennett

Arnold Bennett Quote: “Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely.”

75. “Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely.”

— Arnold Bennett

Arnold Bennett Quote: “We go about in a world where secret influences are continually at work for us or against us, and we do not suspect their existence, because we have no imagination. For it needs imagination to perceive the truth – that is why the greatest poets are always the greatest teachers.”

76. “We go about in a world where secret influences are continually at work for us or against us, and we do not suspect their existence, because we have no imagination. For it needs imagination to perceive the truth – that is why the greatest poets are always the greatest teachers.”

— Arnold Bennett

Arnold Bennett Quote: “One may have spent one’s time badly, but one did spend it; one did do something with it, however ill-advised that something may have been. To do something else means a change of habits.”

77. “One may have spent one’s time badly, but one did spend it; one did do something with it, however ill-advised that something may have been. To do something else means a change of habits.”

— Arnold Bennett

Arnold Bennett Quote: “And if you don’t like that you can acquaint yourself with the axioms that neither you nor anybody else are the centre of the universe and that what you call complications are simply another name for life itself. Worry is life, and life is worry. And the absence of worry is death.”

78. “And if you don’t like that you can acquaint yourself with the axioms that neither you nor anybody else are the centre of the universe and that what you call complications are simply another name for life itself. Worry is life, and life is worry. And the absence of worry is death.”

— Arnold Bennett

Arnold Bennett Quote: “I hate being asked what I want. Because I never know.”

79. “I hate being asked what I want. Because I never know.”

— Arnold Bennett

Arnold Bennett Quote: “The manner of his life was of no importance. What affected her was that he had once been young. That he had grown old, and was now dead. That was all. Youth and vigour had come to that. Youth and vigour always came to that. Everything came to that.”

80. “The manner of his life was of no importance. What affected her was that he had once been young. That he had grown old, and was now dead. That was all. Youth and vigour had come to that. Youth and vigour always came to that. Everything came to that.”

— Arnold Bennett

Arnold Bennett Quote: “Good fiction is autobiography dressed in the colours of all mankind.”

81. “Good fiction is autobiography dressed in the colours of all mankind.”

— Arnold Bennett

Arnold Bennett Quote: “Meat may go up in price – it has done – but books won’t. Admission to picture galleries and concerts and so forth will remain quite low. The views from Richmond Hill or Hindhead, or along Pall Mall at sunset, the smell of the earth, the taste of fruit and of kisses – these things are unaffected by the machinations of trusts and the hysteria of stock exchanges.”

82. “Meat may go up in price – it has done – but books won’t. Admission to picture galleries and concerts and so forth will remain quite low. The views from Richmond Hill or Hindhead, or along Pall Mall at sunset, the smell of the earth, the taste of fruit and of kisses – these things are unaffected by the machinations of trusts and the hysteria of stock exchanges.”

— Arnold Bennett

Arnold Bennett Quote: “You can only waste the passing moment. You cannot waste to-morrow; it is kept for you.”

83. “You can only waste the passing moment. You cannot waste to-morrow; it is kept for you.”

— Arnold Bennett

Arnold Bennett Quote: “It is always the man who has tasted life who demands more of it.”

84. “It is always the man who has tasted life who demands more of it.”

— Arnold Bennett

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