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You probably think of the orch...

You probably think of the orchestra as a heterogeneous mass of instruments
producing a confused agreeable mass
of sound. You do not listen for details because you have never trained your ears to listen to details.

Arnold Bennett 141 quotes

The gain in self-confidence of...

The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.

Arnold Bennett 141 quotes

Only a very gifted mind could ...

Only a very gifted mind could cope singly with all the problems which present themselves in the perfecting of a home.

Arnold Bennett 141 quotes

A true friend is one who likes...

A true friend is one who likes you despite your achievements.

Arnold Bennett 141 quotes

The test of a first-rate work,...

The test of a first-rate work, and a test of your sincerity in calling it a first-rate work, is that you finish it.

Arnold Bennett 141 quotes

It is only people of small sta...

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

Arnold Bennett 141 quotes

No mind, however loving, could...

No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.

Arnold Bennett 141 quotes

Saw Washington Monument. Phall...

Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.

Arnold Bennett 141 quotes

To my mind the most poignant m...

To my mind the most poignant mystical exhoration ever written is 'Be still and know that I am God.'

Arnold Bennett 141 quotes

Pessimism, when you get used t...

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

Arnold Bennett 141 quotes

I ought to reflect again and a...

I ought to reflect again and again, and yet again, that the beings that I have to steer are just as inevitable in the scheme of evolution as I am myself; have just as much right to be themselves as I am entitled to; and they all deserve from me as much sympathy as I give to myself.

Arnold Bennett 141 quotes

Ninety percent of the friction...

Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by tone of voice.

Arnold Bennett 141 quotes

There is no magic method of be...

There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.

Arnold Bennett 141 quotes

Concentrate on something usefu...

Concentrate on something useful. Having decided to achieve a task, achieve it at all costs.

Arnold Bennett 141 quotes

You are not in charge of the u...

You are not in charge of the universe; you are in charge of yourself.

Arnold Bennett 141 quotes

Because her instinct has told ...

Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her; she knows by a process of the intellect; but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgin's lot.

Arnold Bennett 141 quotes

Every scene, even the commones...

Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom and behold it, as it were, for the first time.

Arnold Bennett 141 quotes

Prepare to live by all means, ...

Prepare to live by all means, but for Heaven's sake do not forget to live.

Arnold Bennett 141 quotes

Time is the inexplicable raw m...

Time is the inexplicable raw material of everything. With it, all is possible, without it nothing. The supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it.

Arnold Bennett 141 quotes

If you've ever really been poo...

If you've ever really been poor you remain poor at heart all your life. I've often walked when I could very well afford to take a taxi because I simply couldn't bring myself to waste the shilling it would cost.

Arnold Bennett 141 quotes

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