Arnold Bennett Quotes

Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.

Nero fiddled while Rome burned, but [Calvin] Coolidge only snores.

The know-nothings are, unfortunately, seldom the do-nothings.

Those no-sooner-have-I-touched-the-pillow people are past my comprehension. There is something bovine about them.

The easiest thing to do in the world is pull the covers up over your head and go back to sleep.

The worst thing we can do is to do nothing.

Sloth, not ill-will, makes me unjust.

Because you can be lazy if you don't know the truth.

The real damage is done by those millions who want to "survive." The honest men who just want to be left in peace. Those who don't want their little lives disturbed by anything bigger than themselves. Those with no sides and no causes. Those who won't take measure of their own strength, for fear of antagonizing their own weakness. Those who don't like to make waves — or enemies. Those for whom freedom, honor, truth, and principles are only literature.

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most, that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

For all the evils in the world, I think apathy is one of the most dangerous.

Why should I wake when I'm half past dead?

There were two kinds of people in our town. The stupid, and the stuck.

She felt herself needing more and more sleep. When she awoke in the morning, she thought of when she might lie down again - and when she would sleep. She started going to the movies.

There's no doubt in my mind that sleep deprivation is the hidden number one cause of arguments and cybersex. I'm convinced that countless good relationships end and bad ones begin because of chronic fatigue. Never make a major decision until after you've taken a nap.

Sometimes it is difficult to remember, but other times it is very easy to remember. Sleep deprivation is the killer.

The cafes bore me; going downstairs is a nuisance. Painting and sleeping - that's all there is.

Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

A feel-good style can be a symptom of unawareness or lack of caring.

If we sit by and become complacent and put our heads in the sand, we're complicit.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

I believe that when things are easy, people stay dormant.

I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.