"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."

Rating:

  rate this quote
Topic: none  help us select a topic for this quote

More quotes from: Arnold Bennett

• "A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and ..."
• "Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. "
• "Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They ..."
• "Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion. "
• "Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly ..."
• "If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient ..."
• "It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from ..."
• "It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with ..."
• "Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like. "
• "Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money ..."
• "Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, ..."
• "Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism. "
• "The moment you're born you're done for. "
• "There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet ..."
• "Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world. "
• "Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by ..."