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
In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop.
A child of three cannot raise its chubby fist to its mouth to remove a piece of carpet which it is through eating, without being made the subject of a psychological seminar of child-welfare experts, and written up, along with five hundred other children of three who have put their hands to their mouths for the same reason.
There are several natural phenomena which I shall have to have explained to me before I can keep on going as a resident member ofthe human race. One is the metamorphosis which hats and suits undergo exactly one week after their purchase, whereby they are changed from smart, intensely becoming articles of apparel into something children use when they want to "dress up like daddy.
Traveling with children corresponds roughly to traveling third class in Bulgaria.
Central Park is the grandiose symbol of the front yard each child in New York hasn't got.
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.
In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.
It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous
There is something about saying "Ok" and hanging up the receiver with a bang that kids a man into feeling that he has just pulled off a big deal, even if he has only called the telephone company to find out the correct time
Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did.
Perfectly Scandalous" was one of those plays in which all of the actors unfortunately enunciated very clearly
I can't seem to bring myself to say, "Well, I guess I'll be toddling along." It isn't that I can't toddle. It's that I can't guess I'll toddle.
There are two kinds of people in this world - those who divide everything into two and those who don't