Robert Benchley Quotes

I haven't been abroad in so long that I almost speak English without an accent now.

There is probably no moment more appalling than that in which the tongue comes suddenly upon the ragged edge of a space from which the old familiar filling has disappeared.

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

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 are two kinds of travel: first class and with children.

In America there are two classes of travel - first class and with children.

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things and I have succeeded fairly well.

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.

Go jogging? And get hit by a meteor?

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.

Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of.