54 Quotes by Bennett Cerf

The Atomic Age is here to stay – but are we?

I think it’s become fashionable for the snobbish egghead today to make fun of television. I’ve heard many people, boast, “I would never have a television set in my house,” well, these people are fools.

For me, a hearty “belly laugh” is one of the beautiful sounds in the world.

There is a mass of people, we might as well admit, who if they weren’t watching television, would be doing absolutely nothing else.

The fact that we don’t read more books in America can be traced squarely to the fact that we have newspapers that are about a hundred times as big as the newspapers anywhere else.

Coleridge was a drug addict. Poe was an alcoholic. Marlowe was killed by a man whom he was treacherously trying to stab. Pope took money to keep a woman’s name out of a satire, then wrote a piece so that she could still be recognized, anyhow. Chatterton killed himself. Byron was accused of incest. Do you still want to a writer -and if so, why?

TV’s sameness has destroyed many things, such as the American urge toward independent thought.

Fame - anyone who says he doesn't like it is crazy.

For me, a hearty 'belly laugh' is one of the beautiful sounds in the world.