156 Quotes by Arnold Bennett

Which of us is not saying to himself--which of us has not been saying to himself all his life: "I shall alter that when I have a little more time"? We never shall have any more time. We have, and we have always had, all the time there is.

Good fiction is autobiography dressed in the colours of all mankind.

First-class fiction is, and must be, in the final resort autobiographical.

There may be something of the amateur in all great artists.

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

The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored; that is to say, he is not living.

A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.

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