42 Quotes by A. C. Benson

Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.

What a strange power the perception of beauty is! It seems to ebb and flow like some secret tide, independent alike of health and disease, of joy or sorrow. There are times in our lives when we seem to go singing on our way, and when the beauty of the world sets itself like a quiet harmony to the song we uplift.

A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.

People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.

I don't like authority, at least I don't like other people's authority.

The joy of all mysteries is the certainty which comes from their contemplation, that there are many doors yet for the soul to open on her upward and inward way.

A well begun is half ended.

All the best stories in the world 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.

I don’t like authority, at least I don’t like other people’s authority.