Frases de Arnold Bennett
Arnold Bennett
Data de nascimento: 27. Maio 1867
Data de falecimento: 27. Março 1931
Enoch Arnold Bennett foi um novelista britânico.
Citações Arnold Bennett
„Sua mente é um espaço sagrado na qual nada de mal pode entrar, exceto com sua permissão!“
Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.
"The Human Machine" - Página 45; Publicado por G.H. Doran company, 1911; 123 páginas
„O pessimismo, depois de você se acostumar a ele, é tão agradável quanto o otimismo.“
Variante: O pessimismo, depois de você se acostumar a ele, é tão agradável quanto o optimismo.
„The proper, wise balancing
of one's whole life may depend upon the
feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.“
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.“
Act I
The Title (1918)
Fonte: The Title: A Comedy in Three Acts
„The price of justice is eternal publicity.“
Things That Have Interested Me, 2nd series (1923), "Secret Trials"
„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.“
The Journals of Arnold Bennett, ed. Newman Flower (pub. Cassell, 1932)
„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.“
Fonte: How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day (1910), Chapter 12.
„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.“
Fonte: How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day (1910), Chapter 12.
„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“
disconcerting though the sight may be
Fonte: How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day (1910), Chapter 8.