Arnold Bennett

“Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.”

“The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your career.”

“Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.”

“It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.”

“Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.”

“There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours.”

“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”

“The proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.”

“The price of justice is eternal publicity.”

“Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it.”

“Imagination is the faculty of the mind that God has given us to make the future palpable.”

“The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato—the only good belonging to him is underground.”

“It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.”

“The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.”

“Mothers are the only race of lovers that forgive us all faults.”

“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.”