A. C. Benson Quotes

A. C. Benson shares lofty, lyrical musings that read like a short, dramatic poem.

14 quotes

  1. 'I must consider,' said Monica with a smile, 'but one can't do these things offhand--that is worse than doing nothing. I'll tell you what to do NOW. Why not go and stay with Aunt Anne? She would like to see you, I know, and I have always thought it rather lazy of you not to go there--she is rather a remarkable woman, and it's a pretty country. Have you ever been there?'

  2. Let those whose Hearts and Hands are strong Tell eager Tales of mighty Deeds; Enough if my sequestered song To hush'd and twilight Gardens leads! Clear Waters, drawn from secret Wells Perchance may fevered Lips assuage; The Tales an elder Pilgrim tells To such as go on Pilgrimage. Such the soft Path my Words would trace, Thus with the moving Waters move; So leave, across the Ocean's Face, A glimmering Stair to Hope and Love.

  3. People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.

  4. The friend is the person whom one is in need of and by whom one is needed.

  5. When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

  6. One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

  7. Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.

  8. I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.

  9. Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

  10. I never enter a new company without the hope that I may discover a friend, perhaps the friend, sitting there with an expectant smile. That hope survives a thousand disappointments.

  11. Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.

  12. The test of a good letter is a very simple one. If one seems to hear the other person talking as one reads, it is a good letter.

  13. A well begun is half ended.

  14. Do you know the times when one seems to stick fast in circumstances like the fly in the jam-pot? It can't be helped, and I suppose the best thing to do is to lay in a good store of jam!