Robert Charles Benchley movie quotes

“Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?”
Robert Charles Benchley

“As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did.”
Robert Charles Benchley

“I find that, while working, a pipe is a great source of inspiration. A pipe can be placed diagonally across the keys of a typewriter so that they will not function, or it can be made to give out such a cloud of smoke that I cannot see the paper.”
Robert Charles Benchley

“Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.”
Robert Charles Benchley

“A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down. ”
Robert Charles Benchley

“Just think of all the things you can do after 40! Professor Webster was 57 when he cut up Dr. Parkman and threw him into the furnace of the Harvard Medical School, and Dr. Parkman was 70 himself!”
Robert Charles Benchley

“Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about.”
Robert Charles Benchley

“The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.”
Robert Charles Benchley

“I do most of my work sitting down; that's where I shine.”
Robert Charles Benchley

“Every man owes it to himself (and to his friends) to get away entirely alone in an isolated shack every so often, if only to find out just what bad company he can be.”
Robert Charles Benchley

“Anything can happen, but it usually doesn't.”
Robert Charles Benchley

“Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.”
Robert Charles Benchley

“I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.”
Robert Charles Benchley

“An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense no matter what happens.”
Robert Charles Benchley

“When I was a child I was of an affectionate disposition, but not enough to get arrested.”
Robert Charles Benchley

“A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around
three times before lying down.”
Robert Charles Benchley

“Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he
is supposed to be doing.”
Robert Charles Benchley

“Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already
stretched and pulled to such a length that a child cannot do much
harm one way or another.”
Robert Charles Benchley

“Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.”
Robert Charles Benchley

“Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to
begin with it's just compounding the felony.”
Robert Charles Benchley

“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 Charles Benchley

“I didn't ought to have went.”
Robert Charles Benchley

“It was only one of those plays in which the actors,
unfortunately, enunciated very clearly.”
Robert Charles Benchley

“Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.”
Robert Charles Benchley

“There are various forms of the disease, the victim of which is unable to say 'No.' Some of these forms are more serious than others, and often lead to electrocution or marriage.”
Robert Charles Benchley