Arnold Bennett Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

“If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.”

“The moment you're born you're done for.”

“To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.”