Arnold Bennett citations (12 citations)

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Arnold Bennett: Citations en anglais

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

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“The proper, wise balancing
of one's whole life may depend upon the
feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.”

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Source: How to Live on 24 Hours a Day

“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.”

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Act I
The Title (1918)
Source: The Title: A Comedy in Three Acts

“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.”

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“Which of us is not saying to himself
which of us has not been saying to himself all
his life:
"
I shall alter that when I have a little
more time"?
We never shall have any more time. We
have, and we have always had, all the time
there is.”

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Source: How to Live on 24 Hours a Day

“Yes books are valuable. But not reading of books will take the place of a daily, candid, honest examination of what one has recently done, and what one is about to do - of a steady looking at one's self in the face”

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disconcerting though the sight may be
Source: How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day (1910), Chapter 8.

“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.”

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The Journals of Arnold Bennett, ed. Newman Flower (pub. Cassell, 1932)

“A prig is a pompous fool who has gone out for a ceremonial walk, and without knowing it has lost an important part of his attire, namely, his sense of humour.”

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Source: How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day (1910), Chapter 12.

“Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They can't give their entire attention to it.”

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Act I
The Title (1918)

“And, having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.”

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Source: How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day (1910), Chapter 12.

“Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.”

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Act II
The Title (1918)

“The price of justice is eternal publicity.”

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Things That Have Interested Me, 2nd series (1923), "Secret Trials"

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