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36 Columnist Actor Quotes
36 Columnist Actor Quotes
If Mr. Einstein doesn't like the natural laws of the universe, let him go back to where he came from.
Robert Benchley
Back
Came
Einstein
Go
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I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.
Robert Benchley
About
Absolutely
AbsolutelyNothing
Fairly
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A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
Robert Benchley
Around
Before
Boy
Dog
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Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of.
Robert Benchley
Afraid
Phobias
Tell
Us
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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.
Robert Benchley
Almost
Amount
Around
Enormous
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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
Robert Benchley
Because
Discover
Famous
Fifteen
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An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens.
Robert Benchley
Ardent
Game
Go
Happens
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Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony.
Robert Benchley
Begin
Drinking
Fools
Makes
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Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?
Robert Benchley
Coat
Dry
Get
Martini
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In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children
Robert Benchley
America
Children
Class
Classes
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Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
Robert Benchley
Command
Drawing
English
EnglishLanguage
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I do most of my work sitting down; that's where I shine.
Robert Benchley
Down
Most
Shine
Sitting
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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
Robert Benchley
Around
Before
Boy
Dog
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I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry.
Robert Benchley
Death
Drinking
Hurry
Know
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The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
Robert Benchley
Him
Make
Man
Monkey
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The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon
Robert Benchley
Biggest
BiggestObstacle
Changing
Necessity
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The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps
Robert Benchley
Freelance
Man
Paid
Per
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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
Robert Benchley
Cannot
Child
Children
Dogs
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Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous
Robert Benchley
Bit
Even
Feeling
Just
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Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings
Robert Benchley
Back
Dying
Gets
Guy
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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.
Robert Benchley
Asked
Come
Done
Get
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Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment.
Robert Benchley
Amount
Any
Anyone
Doing
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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.
Robert Benchley
Any
Author
Authorities
Been
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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.
Robert Benchley
Also
Although
Back
Bother
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We are constantly being surprised that people did things well before we were born.
Robert Benchley
Before
Being
Born
Constantly
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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
Robert Benchley
Analyze
Go
Humor
People
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A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death
Robert Benchley
Cure
Death
Family
Hangover
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In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop.
Robert Benchley
Appearance
Bathroom
Children
Curiosity
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After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new book out of him each year.
Robert Benchley
After
Author
Becomes
Been
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Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about.
Robert Benchley
About
Am
Argument
Being
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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.
Robert Benchley
After
Coming
Family
Frozen
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Anyone who tries to keep track of what is happening in China is going to end up by wearing all the skin of his left ear from twirling around on it.
Robert Benchley
Anyone
Around
China
Ear
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Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on to the sidewalk
Robert Benchley
Band
Coming
Downstairs
Feel
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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.
Robert Benchley
Because
Call
Door
Drum
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At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting about for joys that do not turn to dross in one's hands
Robert Benchley
About
Beginning
Casting
Everything
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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.
Robert Benchley
Author
Difficult
First
Front
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