A. C. Benson Quotes

"All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape."
- A. C. Benson
(Related: Reality)

"Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping."
- A. C. Benson
(Related: Men, Ambition)

"As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow."
- A. C. Benson
(Related: Mystery, Pilgrimage, Sense, World)

"The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears."
- A. C. Benson
(Related: Life)

"One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do."
- A. C. Benson
(Related: Mind)

"Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene."
- A. C. Benson
(Related: Change, Self)

"People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way."
- A. C. Benson
(Related: People, Help, Right)

"Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste."
- A. C. Benson
(Related: Fact, Taste)

"I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this."
- A. C. Benson
(Related: Being, Boys, Duty, Emotions, Opinions, Worth)

"I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction."
- A. C. Benson
(Related: Fiction)

"Man, an animal that makes bargains."
- A. C. Benson
(Related: Man)

"When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory."
- A. C. Benson
(Related: Age, Life, March)