Robert Benchley
Comedian
1889-09-15
Quotes by Robert Benchley
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There are two kinds of travel: first class and with children.
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A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated.
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It took me fifteen years to discover that 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 only cure for a real hangover is death.
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Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.
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There are two kinds of travel: first class and with children.
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It took me fifteen years to discover that 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 only cure for a real hangover is death.
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A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated.
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Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.
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Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other.
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An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens.
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A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
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The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.
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We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on.
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Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted.
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Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?
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For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.
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If there is a streak of ham anywhere in an actor, Shakespeare will bring it out.
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Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
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