Arnold Bennett

Naissance 27 May 1867 · Décès 27 March 1931

Enoch Arnold Bennett était un romancier, dramaturge et journaliste anglais dont les romans et les pièces reflétaient généralement la vie de la petite bourgeoisie du nord du Staffordshire. Il naquit à Hanley, dans le Staffordshire (aujourd'hui Stoke-on-Trent), fils d'un avoué.

Citations

“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.”
The Title, Act IEn anglais
“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.”
How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day, Chapter 12En anglais
“Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They can't give their entire attention to it.”
The Title, Act IEn anglais
“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 Journals of Arnold Bennett, ed. Newman Flower pub. Cassell, 1932En anglais
“Yes books are valuable. But not reading of books will take the place of a daily, candid, honest examination of what one has recently done, and what one is about to do - of a steady looking at one's self in the face (disconcerting though the sight may be).”
How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day, Chapter 8En anglais