42 Quotes by A. C. Benson

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.