Robert Benchley citáty
Robert Benchley
Datum narození: 15. září 1889
Datum úmrtí: 21. listopad 1945
Další jména: Robert Charles Benchley
Robert Benchley byl americký humorista a herec.
Citáty Robert Benchley
„V Americe jsou dvě cestovní třídy – první a s dětmi.“
Originál: (en) In America there are two classes of travel — first class and with children.
Zdroj: [Benchley, Robert, 1954, The Benchley Roundup, University of Chicago Press, 61, anličtina, 978-0-22604-218-3]
„The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.“
Zdroj: "Quick Quotations" in My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew (1936)
Kontext: The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. That remark in itself wouldn’t make any sense if quoted as it stands.
„Nine-tenths of the value of a sense of humor in writing is not in the things it makes one write but in the things it keeps one from writing.“
LIFE magazine (8 March 1929)
Kontext: Nine-tenths of the value of a sense of humor in writing is not in the things it makes one write but in the things it keeps one from writing. It is especially valuable in this respect in serious writing, and no one without a sense of humor should ever write seriously. For without knowing what is funny, one is constantly in danger of being funny without knowing it.
„The English language may hold a more disagreeable combination of words than "The doctor will see you now."“
"The Tooth, the Whole Tooth, and Nothing but the Tooth", in Love Conquers All (1922)
Kontext: The English language may hold a more disagreeable combination of words than "The doctor will see you now." I am willing to concede something to the phrase "Have you anything to say before the current is turned on?" That may be worse for the moment, but it doesn't last so long. For continued, unmitigating depression, I know nothing to equal "The doctor will see you now." But I'm not narrow-minded about it. I'm willing to consider other possibilities.
„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.“
Quoted in Robert Benchley (1955) by Nathaniel Benchley, ch. 1
„Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.“
As quoted in With Truth as Our Sword (2005) by C E Sylvester, p. 205
„In America there are two classes of travel — first class, and with children.“
Zdroj: "Kiddie-Kar Travel", Pluck and Luck (1925) http://books.google.com/books?id=ODtLAAAAIAAJ&q=%22In+America+there+are+two+classes+of+travel+first+class+and+with+children%22&pg=PA6#v=onepage; also in D.A.C. News http://www.dacnews.com/, September 1923 http://books.google.com/books?id=uLl9ULzkvikC&q=%22Kiddie+kar+travel%22&pg=PA27#v=onepage
„A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.“
"Your Boy and His Dog," Liberty magazine, (30 July 1932)
Also published in Chips Off the Old Benchley http://books.google.com/books?id=1-gHw9bqQqAC&q=%22A+dog+teaches+a+boy+fidelity+perseverance+and+to+turn+around+three+times+before+lying+down%22&pg=PA94#v=onepage (1949)
„Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.“
Quoted in The Algonquin Wits, (1968) by R E Drennan, p. 5
„There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't.“
Vanity Fair (February 1920)
Varianta: There may be said to be two classes of people in the world; those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes, and those who do not.
Kontext: There may be said to be two classes of people in the world; those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes, and those who do not. Both classes are extremely unpleasant to meet socially, leaving practically no one in the world whom one cares very much to know.
„The only cure for a real hangover is death.“
"Coffee Versus Gin", My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew (1936)
„Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony.“
Quoted in The New Speaker's Treasury of Wit and Wisdom (1958) by Herbert Victor Prochnow, p. 129
„There may be said to be two classes of people in the world; those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes, and those who do not. Both classes are extremely unpleasant to meet socially, leaving practically no one in the world whom one cares very much to know.“
Vanity Fair (February 1920)
Zdroj: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/02/07/two-classes/
„I don’t want to be an alarmist, but I think that the Younger Generation is up to something…. I base my apprehension on nothing more definite than the fact that they are always coming in and going out of the house, without any apparent reason.“
"The Children’s Hour" in My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew (1936)
„I do most of my work sitting down; that's where I shine.“
Quoted in The Algonquin Wits, (1968) by R E Drennan, p. 5
„Anyone will be glad to admit that he knows nothing about beagling, or the Chinese stock market, or ballistics, but there is not a man or woman alive who does not claim to know how to cure hiccoughs.“
"Stop Those Hiccoughs!", My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew (1936)
„So who's in a hurry?“
To a friend who had told him that his particular drink was slow poison, as quoted in Robert Benchley (1955) by Nathaniel Benchley, ch. 1.
