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Famous Quotes By Arnold Bennett

Famous quotes made by the English novelist and playwright, Arnold Bennett. He was born on May 27, 1867 in Hanley, Staffordshire, and died on March 27, 1931.

It is well, when one is judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste at all.

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

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

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

It is only people of small moral stature who have to stand on their dignity.

Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it.

A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.

His opinion of himself, having once risen, remained at 'set fair'.

Women are strange and incomprehensible, a device invented by Providence to keep the wit of man well sharpened by constant employment.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

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