Eric Bentley
Eric Bentley
Eric Russell Bentleyis a British-born American critic, playwright, singer, editor and translator. In 1998, he was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame and is a member of the New York Theater Hall of Fame in recognition of his many years of cabaret performances...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionCritic
Date of Birth14 September 1916
george grotesque ought third wonder
George the Third / Ought never to have occurred. / One can only wonder / At so grotesque a blunder.
hope cancer hands
If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so.
running spring flower
Even in a jungle, lovely flowers will spring up here and there, such being the fecundity of nature, and however badly our pastors and masters run our society, however much they pull to pieces that which they claim to be keeping intact, nature remains fecund, human beings are born with human traits, sometimes human strength outweighs human weakness, and human grace shows itself amid human ugliness. ‘In the bloodiest times,’ as our play has it, ‘there are kind people.’
dream wish farce
Like dreams, farces show the disguised fulfillment of repressed wishes.
biographies maps geography
Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.
deal great longer
What I like about Clive / Is that he is no longer alive. / There is a great deal to be said / For being dead.
bright english-critic genuine instead ours
Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.