Zitate von Enoch Arnold Bennett
Enoch Arnold Bennett
Geburtstag: 27. Mai 1867
Todesdatum: 27. März 1931
Arnold Bennett war ein englischer Schriftsteller. Bennett ist vor allem bekannt als Verfasser der realistischen Romane und Kurzgeschichten um die „Five Towns“, einer imaginären Gegend im Norden Englands. Dazu gehören Geschichten aus Fünf Städten, The Old Wives’ Tale und die Trilogie Clayhanger. Zu seiner Zeit war er als Kritiker und Essayist von großem Einfluss.
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Zitate Enoch Arnold Bennett
„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, The Title: A Comedy in Three Acts
The Title (1918), Act I
„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
How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day (1910), disconcerting though the sight may be
Chapter 8.
„The price of justice is eternal publicity.“
— Arnold Bennett
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.“
— 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
How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day (1910), Chapter 12.
„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
How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day (1910), Chapter 12.