Arnold Bennett Men Quotations

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.

A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.

One of the chief things which my typical man has to learn is that the mental faculties are capable of a continuous hard activity; they do not tire like an arm or a leg. All they want is change - not rest, except in sleep.

The real Tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.

The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored; that is to say, he is not living.

During a long and varied career as a bachelor, I have noticed that marriage is the death of politeness between a man and a woman.

Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely