black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one’s movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.

A. C. Benson

I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.
A. C. BENSON

Deserve Expectation Kindness Myself
The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn’t your real life.
A. C. BENSON

Goodness Life Moment Reality Stifle Yourself
It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without.
A. C. BENSON

Help Oneself Power Time Trouble
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
A. C. BENSON

Ambition Circumstance Hard Work Labor Men Position Work
Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.
A. C. BENSON

Happiness Hard Work One Liner Secret
All the best stories in the world 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

Best Deep Escape Oneself Reality Story World
The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
A. C. BENSON

Fear Loss Reality Sorrow Worst
The friend is the person whom one is in need of and by whom one is needed.
A. C. BENSON
I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.
A. C. BENSON

Goodness Happiness Interest Myself People Person Quite
The test of a good letter is a very simple one. If one seems to hear the other person talking as one reads, it is a good letter.
A. C. BENSON

Goodness Letter Listening Talk Test Writing
Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
A. C. BENSON

Appearance Expensive World
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
A. C. BENSON

Change Deep Motivation Need Perspective Success
I never enter a new company without the hope that I may discover a friend, perhaps the friend, sitting there with an expectant smile. That hope survives a thousand disappointments.
A. C. BENSON

Company Disappointment Discover Expectation Friendship Hope Smile Survive
It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.
A. C. BENSON

Clear Direction Help Oneself See Solution Statement Writing
A well begun is half ended.
A. C. BENSON

Beginning End One Liner
Do you know the times when one seems to stick fast in circumstances like the fly in the jam-pot? It can’t be helped, and I suppose the best thing to do is to lay in a good store of jam!
A. C. BENSON

Circumstance Fast Fly Goodness Myself Time Trap

A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one’s movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one’s movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More A. C. Benson Quotes