black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
A. C. BENSON

Help Oneself People Refusal Right
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

Emotion Man Opinion Responsibility Suffering Taste Teacher Teaching Try Worth
A well begun is half ended.
A. C. BENSON

Beginning End One Liner
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
A. C. BENSON

Change Deep Motivation Need Perspective Success
Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
A. C. BENSON

Adjust Need Ourselves Pain Process Time
The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
A. C. BENSON

Fear Loss Reality Sorrow Worst
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
When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
A. C. BENSON

Age Life Oneself Reach
I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.
A. C. BENSON

Different Expression Feeling Normal Sympathy Thinking View
Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
A. C. BENSON

Appearance Expensive World
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
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
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
I believe in instinct, not reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.
A. C. BENSON

Believe Instinct Reason
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

Clear Ground Mindset Oneself Way
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

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More A. C. Benson Quotes