Nearly all bookish people are snobs, and especially the more enlightened among them. They are apt to assume that if a writer has immense circulation, if he is enjoyed by plain persons, and if he can fill several theatres at once, he cannont possibly be worth reading and merits only indifference and disdain.
Arnold Bennett
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES In order to bring me down.You have to be able to reach me first. PRAVINEE HURBUNGS Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed. HUGH LEONARD The young are too apt to believe what a great man says, especially if he be an authority in the prof... GEORGE KEETON He's [Peter Jacobsen] had Arnold as a partner and done very well with Arnold. If he can carry Arnold... LANNY WADKINS I am convinced that anyone can be a great writer . . . if he can only . . . tell the naked truth abo... CLIVE BARNES The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed. ... MARIA MONTESSORI If one wants to go to Mumbai from Baroda, he will ‘like’ all the signs towards the south. And if... DADA BHAGWAN The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. ... WILLIAM FAULKNER Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose... WALTER KAUFMANN [If a man] postpone[s] any open acknowledgement... that his own faith is in direct opposition to the... C.S. LEWIS What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the me... SAINT TERESA OF AVILA He not only cares about how things are made and if they are recycled and making sure they are non-to... ALISA GRAVITZ The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of ra... OG MANDINO People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty. SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM TREE People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty HERBERT BEERBOHM TREE He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one... JOHN STUART MILL Man is used to the fact that there are languages which he does not at first understand and which mus... EDWARD T. HALL Man is complete in himself. When they go into the world, the world will disagree with them. That is ... OSCAR WILDE If you allow your enemy to steal your faith, he can destroy your life and ultimately kill your relat... CRAIG GROESCHEL Hence a commander who advances without any thought of winning personal fame and withdraws in spite o... SUN TZU If anyone thinks he has faith and yet is indifferent towards this possession, is neither cold nor ho... SøREN KIERKEGAARD The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, wit... H.L. MENCKEN If he avoids quarrels with these persons, he will be freed from all sins, and by suppressing ,all su... GURU NANAK He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be. CRAIG GROESCHEL When I have said "If Only", I realised what precious a moment have slipped away. SANDRA AMARTEY If our eyes were fully attuned like a camera or better the wanders that we would actually see would ... GARY F EVANS... Can an author with reason complain that he is cramped and shackled if he is not at liberty to publis... PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE The writer's shortness of breath became more and more distressing as he rose. HUDSON STUCK There was only one catch and that was Catch-22. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if ... JOSEPH HELLER When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a c... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Epitaphs are cheap, and they do a poor chap a world of good after he is dead, especially if he had h... MARK TWAIN There are some traditions that do not use art at all, with a belief that it is impossible to portray... ROBIN JENSEN It is only the forcible propagation of conventional Christianity that makes the agnostic so bitter t... H. P. LOVECRAFT If he shrugs his shoulders, it is because he is no fool. He knows that once men are caught up in an ... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him... SUN TZU I am a writer, and the duty of a writer is not only to furnish pleasant pursuits for the mind and ta... NIKOLAI GOGOL He can't read lips and doesn't know sign language. The only way he can communicate is by reading not... BRYAN WILLIAMS Are cats lazy? Well, more power to them if they are. Which one of us has not entertained the dream ... FERNAND MERY Rincewind rather enjoyed times like this. They convinced him that he wasn’t mad because, if he was... TERRY PRATCHETT If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the wa... C.S. LEWIS Higher income earners are more likely to be audited because there is more tax money at stake, ... Th... ERIC TYSON The advice they give you in the field is, if you're an artist get established as an artist first and... JANE CHOC Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them... JOSEPH HELLER The Americans are at home and we are away. He's had a change of scenery and a change in racing condi... LUCA CUMANI All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are f... ERNEST HEMINGWAY That man is good who does good to others; if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very g... JEAN DE LA BRUYERE I think people are more apt to believe photographs, especially if it's something fantastic. They... CINDY SHERMAN Oh, tell me, who first declared, who first proclaimed that man only does nasty things because he doe... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY They wouldn’t have understood if they found him crying, when he woke and remembered all at once th... THOMM QUACKENBUSH Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True ... MARK TWAIN If a man has good manners and is not afraid of other people he will get by, even if he is stupid. DAVID ECCLES Books worth reading once are worth reading twice; and what is most important of all, the masterpiece... JOHN MORLEY The right to discuss freely and openly, by speech, by the pen, by the press, all political questions... WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT If all newspapers are losing circulation, maybe it's just worth trying to go back to some reporting,... ANDREW MARR He knows that the only way he can accept losing her is if he can continue to hold her or be held by ... MICHAEL ONDAATJE Men are apt to idolize or fear that which they cannot understand, especially if it be a woman. JEAN TOOMER If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly... THOMAS WOLFE The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to hi... ROALD DAHL Man is the religious animal. He is the only religious animal. He is the only animal that has the Tru... MARK TWAIN The things people say of a man do not alter a man. He is what he is. Public opinion is of no value w... OSCAR WILDE The you you are now is the same you I was in love with yesterday and the same you i'll be in love wi... GAYLE FOREMAN If Satan can weaken or destroy the loving relationships among members of families, he can cause more... JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer... JESSAMYN WEST All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object i... H.L. MENCKEN If a man has a talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it,... THOMAS WOLFE The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are. KARL KRAUS The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are. KARL KRAUS Arnold has succeeded at every level, and I believe he is the only person that can unite the people o... MARY BONO He can, if he does the restructuring smartly, save more than he will be paid. He is a master at this... DANIELE SEITZ The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it. It happens to be a fa... ROALD DAHL If James Earl Ray confesses to the public that he has more information and more people, there will b... JESSE JACKSON He is going to be stronger than ever before if he scores as big a victory as looks likely, and that ... GERALD CURTIS If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange—meaning that he ha... ANTHONY BURGESS We could have been the greatest love story ever told. If only you'd stayed in character. JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT If Christ has been given us, if we are called to his discipleship we are given all things, literally... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER And if he was kind and friendly and funny, and if he told you about places so beautiful that you wan... CAROLINE LEECH The worldly life relationships are that of selfishness. All relationships are relative (temporary). ... DADA BHAGWAN I'm more concerned about the long-term welfare of his wife and daughter if he has to go to Iraq. All... BILL CLARK If people want attention they go to all lengths to try and get it,then once they think they have don... GARY F EVANS... There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for ones own safety i... JOSEPH HELLER Doctors are pleased with the way the operation went. But he is still connected to life support and i... JOEL MENARD If only…the saddest words in the English language. KRISTAN HIGGINS A man must know his destiny
if he does not recognize it, then he is lost. By this I mean, once, tw... GENERAL GEORGE S. PATTON A man must know his destiny… if he does not recognize it, then he is lost. By this I mean, once, t... GEORGE S. PATTON JR. A man must know his destiny… if he does not recognize it, then he is lost. By this I mean, once, t... GENERAL GEORGE S. PATTON There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to w... ERNEST HEMINGWAY End the eternal battle of beliefs once and for all. If you are a believer, love your fellow non-beli... ABHIJIT NASKAR If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he ... THOMAS WOLFE If you are a mayor of Munich, you are supposed to be good at it. It's very important. So he promised... ASTRID GANSSEN If only there was a way to escape this reality, if only there was a way to erase all this formality,... DALAL GEBARA The Cat and the Birds
A cat, hearing that the Birds in a certain aviary were ailing dressed himself ... AESOP If people don't sit at Chaplin's feet, he goes out and stands where they are sitting. HERMAN J. MANKIEWICZ He's got a bigger message. He really wants to change the world but not just by saving things, by bei... BRANDON ROUTH Nick has never been in the ring with a man. He will be in the ring with a man if he decides to fight... GEORGE LINBERGER I wanted to ask him more about the Bible, if he thinks it's all deluded. He groups all religions tog... ANDREW OLSON If we are a people who pray, darkness is apt to be a lot of what our prayers are about. If we are pe... FREDERICK BUECHNER No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you... CYNTHIA OZICK There is one thing that, more than any other, throws people absolutely off their balance — the tho... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The better he gets at his low post game, the way more valuable he has. If Troy can get where he can ... MIKE MONTGOMERY
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ARNOLD BENNETT Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission ARNOLD BENNETT The real tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme ... ARNOLD BENNETT A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must b... ARNOLD BENNETT Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ing... ARNOLD BENNETT Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world. ARNOLD BENNETT Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened. ARNOLD BENNETT It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and supe... ARNOLD BENNETT Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the... ARNOLD BENNETT I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to ... 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ARNOLD BENNETT If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient liv... ARNOLD BENNETT In search of ideas I spent yesterday morning in walking about, and went to the stores and bought thi... ARNOLD BENNETT Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memor... ARNOLD BENNETT The moment you're born you're done for. ARNOLD BENNETT It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is best from the top ARNOLD BENNETT We shall never have more time. We have, and have always had, all the time there is. No object is ser... ARNOLD BENNETT Good taste is better than bad taste but bad taste is better than no taste ARNOLD BENNETT All wrong-doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do ARNOLD BENNETT Make love to every woman you meet; if you get five per cent of your outlay it's a good investment ARNOLD BENNETT It is difficult to make a reputation, but it is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation on... ARNOLD BENNETT You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas . . . You canno... ARNOLD BENNETT Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like ARNOLD BENNETT We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's vari... ARNOLD BENNETT A sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various acti... ARNOLD BENNETT Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long e... ARNOLD BENNETT Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely ARNOLD BENNETT The price of justice is eternal publicity ARNOLD BENNETT It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they a... ARNOLD BENNETT Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entir... ARNOLD BENNETT The moment you're born you're done for. ARNOLD BENNETT Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it lo... ARNOLD BENNETT We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one... ARNOLD BENNETT I'm not ruthless. It's common sense that's ruthless. ARNOLD BENNETT Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world. ARNOLD BENNETT Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism. ENOCH ARNOLD BENNETT The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is. THOMAS ARNOLD BENNETT It's simple, if it jiggles, it's fat. ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER Women are the engine driving the growth in California's economy. Women make California's eco... ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER The road to success is always under construction. ARNOLD PALMER Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern. MATTHEW ARNOLD For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, bu... ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated. ARNOLD PALMER Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character. ARNOLD PALMER Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger. ARNOLD PALMER Although, I am proud of all my Symphonies as they all have something special to say, my particular f... MALCOLM ARNOLD Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep... MALCOLM ARNOLD Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there ... MALCOLM ARNOLD I don't see myself as a full-time broadcaster. I've done some of it, and I enjoy it, but I d... ARNOLD PALMER Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it t... EBERHARD ARNOLD I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me. EDDY ARNOLD When I finally put my guitar in the case the last time, I want to be remembered just as a singer, no... EDDY ARNOLD This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs aga... EDDY ARNOLD Touring is really a pretty lonely business. EDDY ARNOLD Don't be afraid to fall flat on your face. EDDY ARNOLD I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with Guess on it. I said, Thyroid problem? ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER I have inhaled, exhaled everything. ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER I'm sure a lot of people out there make mistakes. ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER I'll be back. ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER No, no! The energy of life may be
Kept on after the grave, but not begun;
And he who flagg'd ... MATTHEW ARNOLD Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each... ARNOLD NEWMAN There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there were we would be able to put al... ARNOLD NEWMAN The subject must be thought of in terms of the 20th century, of houses he lives in and places he wor... ARNOLD NEWMAN It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument. EVE ARNOLD My friend James Cameron and I made three films together - True Lies, The Terminator and Terminator 2... ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER The winners at the Olympics step up, bursting with pride, because everything that they have worked f... ARNOLD PALMER Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye
Forever doth accompany mankind,
Hath look'd on n... MATTHEW ARNOLD The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possi... ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER I didn't leave bodybuilding until I felt that I had gone as far as I could go. It will be the sa... ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER As a kid growing up in Latrobe, PA, I could dream about being an Olympian like Jesse Owens or Johnny... ARNOLD PALMER The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. MATTHEW ARNOLD Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature inten... ARNOLD TOYNBEE Odin, thou whirlwind, what a threat is this
Thou threatenest what transcends thy might, even thine... MATTHEW ARNOLD Nature's great law, and law of all men's minds?--
To its own impulse every creature stirs;
Liv... MATTHEW ARNOLD On one she smiles, and he was blest;
She smiles elsewhere--we make a din!
But 'twas not love w... MATTHEW ARNOLD To me, wearing glasses is no pleasure, but once I conceded that I simply couldn't properly judge... ARNOLD PALMER As my father taught me, and he drove home that point, he said, 'Just remember something. You don... ARNOLD PALMER You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them. ARNOLD PALMER If it bleeds, we can kill it. ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER 'Twas a jolly old pedagogue, long ago,
Tall and slender, and sallow and dry;
His form was bent... GEORGE ARNOLD Somewhere there waiteth in this world of ours
For one lone soul another lonely soul,
Each choo... EDWIN ARNOLD Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your... OREN ARNOLD Dear God, I pray for patience. And I want if RIGHT NOW! OREN ARNOLD Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a ... OREN ARNOLD Dear God, I pray for patience.And I want if RIGHT NOW! OREN ARNOLD Don't expect too much of Christmas Day. You can't crowd into it any arrears of unselfishness and kin... OREN ARNOLD Criticism is more effective when it sounds like praise. ARNOLD GLASGOW Money doesn't make happiness, it buys it already made. ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss Bank. ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER There was a time when people said, 'Jim, if you keep on making faces, your face will freeze like tha... ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER The difference between one man and another is not mere ability . . . it is energy. THOMAS ARNOLD Canada has never been a melting pot; more like a tossed salad. ARNOLD EDINBOROUGH It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a gr... ARNOLD PALMER The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion fr... ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open. ARNOLD GLASGOW It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge. ARNOLD GLASGOW A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the c... ARNOLD GLASGOW One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. ARNOLD GLASGOW A consultant is someone who saves his client almost enough to pay his fee. ARNOLD GLASGOW Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great acc... ARNOLD GLASGOW What do I mean by concentration? I mean focusing totally on the business at hand and commanding your... ARNOLD PALMER You must play boldly to win. ARNOLD PALMER I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying;... ARNOLD PALMER The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can ... ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied. ARNOLD GLASGOW Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the etern... MATTHEW ARNOLD I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body. ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER Concentration, Confidence, Competitive urge, Capacity for enjoyment. ARNOLD PALMER In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are. ARNOLD GLASGOW The trouble with the future is that is usually arrives before we're ready for it. ARNOLD GLASGOW The future is the past returning through another gate. ARNOLD GLASGOW My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it. ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER Rather than have it the principal thing in my son's mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun... THOMAS ARNOLD Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tone the spirit just ... ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden a... MATTHEW ARNOLD The respect of those you respect is worth more than the applause of the multitude. ARNOLD GLASGOW The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. MATTHEW ARNOLD My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to mak... THOMAS ARNOLD With close-lipped Patience for our only friend, Sad Patience, too near neighbor to Despair. MATTHEW ARNOLD 'Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly sti... MATTHEW ARNOLD Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. MATTHEW ARNOLD Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur. MATTHEW ARNOLD But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and... MATTHEW ARNOLD The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. MATTHEW ARNOLD Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties! MATTHEW ARNOLD What we must look for here is, firstly, religious and moral principles; secondly, gentlemanly conduc... THOMAS ARNOLD Make your life a mission-not an intermission. ARNOLD GLASGOW This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims. MATTHEW ARNOLD Greatness is a spiritual condition. MATTHEW ARNOLD Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming. MATTHEW ARNOLD Our gifts seem so small in comparison to God EBERHARD ARNOLD You have perhaps waited for years to be freed from some need. For a long, long time you have looked ... EBERHARD ARNOLD Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore. MATTHEW ARNOLD The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the ... MATTHEW ARNOLD Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, ... THOMAS ARNOLD Journalism is literature in a hurry. MATTHEW ARNOLD If we become completely whole-hearted we will have love for all people and will seek in each person ... EBERHARD ARNOLD You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing. ARNOLD BAX Half a psychiatrist's patients see him because they are married -- the other half because they're no... ARNOLD GLASGOW The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privile... MATTHEW ARNOLD If experience has established any one thing in this world, it has established this: that it is well ... MATTHEW ARNOLD And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty's heightening... MATTHEW ARNOLD Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His... MATTHEW ARNOLD Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder. EBERHARD ARNOLD The living need charity more than the dead. GEORGE ARNOLD I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street. ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER Cruel, but composed and bland, Dumb, inscrutable and grand, So Tiberius might have sat, Had... MATTHEW ARNOLD Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say onl... ARNOLD EDINBOROUGH Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery. MATTHEW ARNOLD One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life ... THOMAS ARNOLD Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of yo... THOMAS ARNOLD