Quotes by Benchley, Robert

"A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down."

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"I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well."

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"Drawing on my fine command of the language, I said nothing."

Benchley, Robert on language
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"Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about"

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"The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him."

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"In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children."

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"Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment."

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"The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps."

Benchley, Robert on writers and writing
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"It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up, because by that time I was too famous."

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"The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon."

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"Except for an occasional heart attack I feel as young as I ever did."

Benchley, Robert on youth
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"Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people."

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