Robert Benchley Quotes

Candidates should not attempt more than six of the Ten Commandments.

Great literature must spring from the upheaval in the author’s soul. If that upheaval is not present, then it must come from the works of any other author which can be easily adapted.

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.

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.

Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with it’s just compounding the felony.

It was only one of those plays in which the actors, unfortunately, enunciated very clearly.