Arnold Bennett Quotes


Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission. - Arnold Bennett



You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive. - Arnold Bennett



You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas . . . You cannot make bricks without straw. - Arnold Bennett



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