E. C. Bentley

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Edmund Clerihew Bentley, who generally published under the names E. C. Bentley and E. Clerihew Bentley, was an English novelist and humorist and inventor of the clerihew, an irregular form of humorous verse on biographical topics.

Quick Facts About E. C. Bentley

Notable works: Trent's Last Case

About E. C. Bentley

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by E. C. Bentley

George theThird Ought never to have occurred. One can only wonder At so grotesque a blunder.

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Blunders

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I know, if anyone does - all research workers know - how much is missed that really matters because reports have to…

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Doe

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Sir James Jeans Always says what he means He is really perfectly serious About the Universe being Mysterious.

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Jeans

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That is almost the definition of any friendship that is worthwhile - that we don't care a damn how you behave yourself.

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Behave

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“Sir Christopher Wren Said, "I am going to dine with some men. If anyone calls Say I am designing St. Paul's.”

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Humor

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There are some places which, seen for the first time, yet seem to strike a chord of recollection. "I have been here…

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Chords

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Sir Humphrey Davy Abominated gravy. He lived in the odium Of having discovered sodium. Said to have been written as a schoolboy…

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Biographies

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Between what matters and what seems to matter, how should the world we know judge wisely?

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