Arnold Bennett

“It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made --- so faithful is the public.”

“Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.”

“Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.”

“If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.”

“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.”

“The chief beauty about timeis that you cannot waste it in advance.The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you,as perfect, as unspoiled,as if you had never wasted or misapplieda single moment in all your life.You can turn over a new leaf every hourif you choose.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.”

“It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.”

“Money is far commoner than time. When one reflects, one perceives that money is just about the commonest thing there is.”

“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.”

“Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.”

“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 great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.”

“Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.”

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