Robert Benchley Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)
Robert Benchley quotes and sayings page 3 (deceased comedian born on Sep 15, 1889). Here's quote # 21 through 30 out of the 38 we have for him.
“Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous.”
“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.”
“I do most of my work sitting down; that's where I shine.”
“The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.”
“Other men wear white suits in summer and it doesn't seem to bother them. But my white suit seems to be a little whiter than theirs. I think also that it may have something written on the back of it, although I can't find it when I take the suit off.”
“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.”
“There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that.”
“You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it.”
“Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.”
“I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author.”
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