Arnold Bennett

Who was Arnold Bennett?

Enoch Arnold Bennett was an English writer. He is best known as a novelist, but he also worked in other fields such as journalism, propaganda and film.

Famous Quotes:

• It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.
• The price of justice is eternal publicity.
• 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.
• It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.
• A first-rate Organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.
• Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
• All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.
• The traveler, however virginal and enthusiastic, does not enjoy an unbroken ecstasy. He has periods of gloom, periods when he asks himself the object of all these exertions, and puts the question whether or not he is really experiencing pleasure. At such times he suspects that he is not seeing the right things, that the characteristic, the right aspects of these strange scenes are escaping him. He looks forward dully to the days of his holiday yet to pass, and wonders how he will dispose of them. He is disgusted because his money is not more, his command of the language so slight, and his capacity for enjoyment so limited.
• Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.
• Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.