A sense of the value of time... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.
Arnold BennettIt is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
Arnold BennettEvery 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 BennettNearly 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