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

- Arnold Bennett

Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her; she knows…

- Arnold Bennett

It is only people of small stature who have to stand on their dignity.

- Arnold Bennett

As a rule people don't collect books; they let books collect themselves.

- Arnold Bennett

If you've ever really been poor, you remain poor at heart all your life.

- Arnold Bennett

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

- Arnold Bennett

We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.

- Arnold Bennett

Prepare to live by all means, but for Heaven's sake do not forget to live.

- Arnold Bennett

Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.

- Arnold Bennett