156 Quotes by Arnold Bennett

A good novel rushes you forward like a skiff down a stream, and you arrive at the end, perhaps breathless, but unexhausted

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism. Indeed, I think it must be more agreeable, must have a more real savor, than optimism--from the way in which pessimists abandon themselves to it.