198 Quotes by Robert Benchley


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    Next to a shot of some good, habit-forming narcotic, there is nothing like travelling alone as a ’builder-upper.

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    Even nowadays a man can’t step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous.

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    The most common of all antagonisms arises from a man’s taking a seat beside you on the train, a seat to which he is completely entitled.

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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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    It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by then I was too famous.

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

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    India! What mysteries does the very mention of its name not bring to mind?

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