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title: "2 Hospitality Quotes By Robert Benchley"
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> [I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-benchley/i-have-been-told-by-hospital-authorities-that-more-copies-of-my-works/)

[Robert Benchley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-benchley/)

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> [We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-benchley/we-call-ourselves-a-free-nation-and-yet-we-let-ourselves-be-told-what/)

[Robert Benchley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-benchley/)

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## Other authors on Hospitality

- [Ralph Waldo Emerson 8 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hospitality/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

## More by Robert Benchley

> [I have often wondered how they manage to get return envelopes which miss, by one-quarter of an inch, fitting the blank you are supposed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-benchley/i-have-often-wondered-how-they-manage-to-get-return-envelopes-which/)

[Robert Benchley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-benchley/)

> [My first big mistake was made when, in a moment of weakness, I consented to learn the game; for a man who can frankly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-benchley/my-first-big-mistake-was-made-when-in-a-moment-of-weakness-i/)

[Robert Benchley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-benchley/)

> [You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-benchley/you-might-think-that-after-thousands-of-years-of-coming-up-too-soon/)

[Robert Benchley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-benchley/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-benchley/it-took-me-fifteen-years-to-discover-i-had-no-talent-for-writing-but/)

[Robert Benchley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-benchley/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-benchley/but-ice-crunching-and-loud-gum-chewing-together-with-drumming-on/)

[Robert Benchley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-benchley/)

> [The naturalistic literature of this country has reached such a state that no family of characters is considered true to life whichdoes not include…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-benchley/the-naturalistic-literature-of-this-country-has-reached-such-a-state/)

[Robert Benchley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-benchley/)

> [There is no such place as Budapest. Perhaps you are thinking of Bucharest, and there is no such place as Bucharest, either.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-benchley/there-is-no-such-place-as-budapest-perhaps-you-are-thinking-of/)

[Robert Benchley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-benchley/)

> [I am both a public and a private school boy myself, having always changed schools just as the class in English in the new…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-benchley/i-am-both-a-public-and-a-private-school-boy-myself-having-always/)

[Robert Benchley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-benchley/)

> [Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-benchley/anyone-can-do-any-amount-of-work-provided-it-isn-t-the-work-he-is/)

[Robert Benchley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-benchley/)

> [After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get out a new book by him…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-benchley/after-an-author-has-been-dead-for-some-time-it-becomes-increasingly/)

[Robert Benchley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-benchley/)

> [One of the chief duties of the fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him. This department of the game has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-benchley/one-of-the-chief-duties-of-the-fan-is-to-engage-in-arguments-with-the/)

[Robert Benchley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-benchley/)

> [“There are two kinds of people in the world: those who divide the world into two kinds of people, and those who do not.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-benchley/there-are-two-kinds-of-people-in-the-world-those-who-divide-the-world/)

[Robert Benchley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-benchley/)

> [Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-benchley/why-don-t-you-get-out-of-that-wet-coat-and-into-a-dry-martini/)

[Robert Benchley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-benchley/)

> [Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-benchley/drinking-makes-such-fools-of-people-and-people-are-such-fools-to/)

[Robert Benchley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-benchley/)

> [Behind every argument is someone's ignorance. Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-benchley/behind-every-argument-is-someone-s-ignorance-behind-every-argument-is/)

[Robert Benchley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-benchley/)

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