Robert Benchley
Robert Benchley
Robert Charles Benchleywas an American humorist best known for his work as a newspaper columnist and film actor. From his beginnings at the Harvard Lampoon while attending Harvard University, through his many years writing essays and articles for Vanity Fair and The New Yorker and his acclaimed short films, Benchley's style of humor brought him respect and success during his life, from New York City and his peers at the Algonquin Round Table to contemporaries in the burgeoning film industry...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth15 September 1889
CityWorcester, MA
CountryUnited States of America
If Mr. Einstein doesn't like the natural laws of the universe, let him go back to where he came from.
I can't bring myself to say, 'Well, I guess I'll be toddling along.' It isn't that I can't toddle. It's just that I can't guess I'll toddle.
Work is a form of nervousness.
Streets flooded. Please advise.
One of the easiest forms of pretense to break down is the pretense of enthusiasm for exotic foods. Just bring on the exotic foods.
There are several ways to apportion the family income, all of them unsatisfactory.
I do most of my work sitting down; that's where I shine.
This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises, promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
One of the chief duties of the fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him. This department of the game has been allowed to run down fearfully.
A man of forty today has nothing to worry him but falling hair, inability to button the top button, failing vision, shortness of breath, a tendency of the collar to shut off all breathing, trembling of the kidneys to whatever tune the orchestra is playing, and a general sense of giddiness when the matter of rent is brought up. Forty is Life's Golden Age.
If there is a streak of ham anywhere in an actor, Shakespeare will bring it out.
There is probably no more obnoxious class of citizen, taken end for end, than the returning vacationist.
I don't trust a bank that would lend money to such a poor risk.
Sheer madness is, of course, the highest possible brow in humor.