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5 Arnold Bennett Quotes

Arnold Bennett offers witty, critical takes on society and media that feel like a clever chat.

Arnold Bennett quotes

  1. 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.

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  2. The price of justice is eternal publicity.

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  3. 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.

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  4. Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They can't give their entire attention to it.

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  5. Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

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