"A cause may be inconvenient, but its magnificent. Its like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it."
Enoch Arnold Bennett was an English author, best known as a novelist, who wrote prolifically. Between the 1890s and the 1930s he completed 34 novels, seven volumes of short stories, 13 plays, and a daily journal totalling more than a million words. He wrote articles and stories for more than 100 newspapers and periodicals, worked in and briefly ran the Ministry of Information during the First Worl
"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."
"The price of justice is eternal publicity."
"Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cant give their entire attention to it."
"Journalists say a thing that they know isnt true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true."
"A prig is a pompous fool who has gone out for a ceremonial walk, and without knowing it has lost an important part of his attire, namely, his sense of humour."
"And, having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense."