Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. – Arnold Bennett
Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity. – Arnold Bennett
Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality. – Arnold Bennett
The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round. – Arnold Bennett
When you come from desperate poverty, and thats exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. Im not sure who gains from chaos, but I know its not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution. – Johnny Rotton