Arnold Bennett
Born: 05-26-1867
Arnold Bennett was a prolific English novelist born in 1867. Known for his vivid depiction of the "Five Towns" in the Potteries region, his works like "The Old Wives' Tale" and "Clayhanger" explore the intricacies of ordinary life. Bennett's writing, which spans novels, plays, and self-help books, reflects his keen observations of social dynamics. He was also a prominent literary critic and journalist before his death in 1931.
Book summaries for books written by Arnold Bennett
Quotes
The supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it.
To realize the value of one year, ask a student who failed a grade.
You wake up in the morning, and lo! your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life!
The chief beauty about time is 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 misapplied a single moment in all your career.
Time is not a thing that can be stored up for future use. It is inexorably flowing away from us.
You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.
The proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.
The great thing is to be always reading, but not to be always reading the same thing.
The only cure for grey hair is death.
The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.
It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.