Arnold BennettThinkers

Advertising is responsible for having richly proved that the public will believe anything if they are told of it often enough.

Beauty is strangely various. There is the beauty of light and joy and strength exulting; but there is also the beauty of shade, of sorrow and sadness, and of humility oppressed.

The Cold War is often thought of as being played out in europe. Instead, the u.S. And the USSR intervened in ways that would shape latin America, the middle east, sub-saharan africa, and southern asia, regions mostly to their detriment for decades to come.

Crime is simply a convenient monosyllable which we apply to what happens when the brain and the heart come into conflict and the brain is defeated.

A Friend is one who likes you despite your achievements.

Gravity is an absurd and indefensible law when you fall downstairs... but you obey it.

A Guffaw is an utterance to which there is no logical answer.

Literature is the art of using words. This is not a platitude, but a truth of the first importance, a truth so profound that many writers never get down to it...

Literature does not begin till emotion has begun.

Marriage is the death of politeness between a man and a woman.

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