Comedy Quotes by Robert Benchley

9 Comedy quotes by Robert Benchley

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Robert Benchley’s nine jokes deliver his classic dry humor in bite‑size pieces, perfect for a brief chuckle.

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All laughter is a muscular rigidity spasmodically relieved by involuntary twitching.

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There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.

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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

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Sheer madness is, of course, the highest possible brow in humor.

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If Shakespeare were alive today and writing comedy for the movies, he would be the head-liner for the Mack Sennett studios.

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In Milwaukee last month a man died laughing over one of his own jokes. That's what makes it so tough for us…

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After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get out a new book…

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“There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them." Robert…

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Nine-tenths of the value of a sense of humor in writing is not in the things it makes one write but in…

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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…

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But ice-crunching and loud gum-chewing, together with drumming on tables, and whistling the same tune 70 times in succession, because they indicate an indifference…

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The naturalistic literature of this country has reached such a state that no family of characters is considered true to life whichdoes not include…

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There is no such place as Budapest. Perhaps you are thinking of Bucharest, and there is no such place as Bucharest, either.

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I am both a public and a private school boy myself, having always changed schools just as the class in English in the new…

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

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After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get out a new book by him…

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One of the chief duties of the fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him. This department of the game has…

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“There are two kinds of people in the world: those who divide the world into two kinds of people, and those who do not.”

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Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?

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Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony.

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Behind every argument is someone's ignorance. Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

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