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Robert Benchley Quotes


An American humorist best known for his work as a newspaper columnist and film actor.
Robert Charles Benchley (September 15, 1889 – November 21, 1945) was an American humorist best known for his work as a newspaper columnist and film actor. From his beginnings at the Harvard Lampoon while attending Harvard University, through his many years writing essays and articles for Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, and his acclaimed short films, Benchley's style of humor brought him respect and success during his life, from New York City and his peers at the Algonquin Round Table to contemporaries in the burgeoning film industry.

Here are some famous quotes by  Robert Benchley.

Go jogging? And get hit by a meteor?

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Let's get out of these wet clothes and into a dry martini.

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

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

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

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Drinking makes such fools of people and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony.

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There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.

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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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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.