Frases de Arnold Bennett

„Os jornalistas dizem que uma coisa que eles sabem não ser verdadeira, na esperança de que se mantenha por muito tempo em dizer que era verdadeiro.“

—  Arnold Bennett

The Title (1918), Acto II

„O pessimismo, depois de você se acostumar a ele, é tão agradável quanto o otimismo.“

—  Arnold Bennett

Variante: O pessimismo, depois de você se acostumar a ele, é tão agradável quanto o optimismo.

„Ser marido é um emprego a tempo inteiro. É por isso que tantos maridos fracassam: não conseguem dedicar a isso toda a sua atenção.“

—  Arnold Bennett

„Qualquer mudança, mesmo uma mudança para melhor, é sempre acompanhada de inconvenientes e desconfortos.“

—  Arnold Bennett

„Bom gosto é melhor que mau gosto, mas mau gosto é melhor que gosto nenhum.“

—  Arnold Bennett

„Any change, even a change for the better is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.“

—  Arnold Bennett

„The proper, wise balancing
of one's whole life may depend upon the
feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.“

—  Arnold Bennett

Fonte: How to Live on 24 Hours a Day

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

—  Arnold Bennett

Act I
The Title (1918)
Fonte: The Title: A Comedy in Three Acts

„The real Tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.“

—  Arnold Bennett

„Which of us is not saying to himself
which of us has not been saying to himself all
his life:
"
I shall alter that when I have a little
more time"?
We never shall have any more time. We
have, and we have always had, all the time
there is.“

—  Arnold Bennett

Fonte: How to Live on 24 Hours a Day

„Yes books are valuable. But not reading of books will take the place of a daily, candid, honest examination of what one has recently done, and what one is about to do - of a steady looking at one's self in the face“

—  Arnold Bennett

disconcerting though the sight may be
Fonte: How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day (1910), Chapter 8.

„Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.“

—  Arnold Bennett

The Journals of Arnold Bennett, ed. Newman Flower (pub. Cassell, 1932)

„A prig is a pompous fool who has gone out for a ceremonial walk, and without knowing it has lost an important part of his attire, namely, his sense of humour.“

—  Arnold Bennett

Fonte: How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day (1910), Chapter 12.

„Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They can't give their entire attention to it.“

—  Arnold Bennett

Act I
The Title (1918)

„And, having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.“

—  Arnold Bennett

Fonte: How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day (1910), Chapter 12.

„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.“

—  Arnold Bennett

Act II
The Title (1918)

„The price of justice is eternal publicity.“

—  Arnold Bennett

Things That Have Interested Me, 2nd series (1923), "Secret Trials"