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
I am pretty sure that, if you will be quite honest, you will admit that a good rousing sneeze, one that tears open your collar and throws your hair into your eyes, is really one of life's sensational pleasures.
I don't want to be an alarmist, but I think that the Younger Generation is up to something.... I base my apprehension on nothing more definite than the fact that they are always coming in and going out of the house, without any apparent reason.
England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball, for example.
A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other.
It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.
In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.
The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.