Eric Bentley Quotes

Ours is the age of substitutes: Instead of language we have jargon; instead of principles, slogans; and instead of genuine ideas, bright suggestions.

Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.

If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so.

Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsequently turns its back on bad and good alike.

Like dreams, farces show the disguised fulfillment of repressed wishes.

A play has two authors, the playwright and the actor.

Fashion which elevates the bad to the level of the good subsequently turns its back on bad and good alike.

Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.