Benchley Quotes & Sayings
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In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop. —
Robert Benchley

Next to a shot of some good, habit-forming narcotic, there is nothing like travelling alone as a 'builder-upper. —
Robert Benchley

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

I don't think there's such a thing as an unprovoked shark attack. —
Peter Benchley

It's hard to care deeply for something that might turn on you and eat you. —
Peter Benchley

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water ... —
Peter Benchley

Every boy should have two things: a dog and a mother who lets him have one —
Robert Benchley

Robert
Benchley has a style that is weak and lies down frequently to rest. —
Max Eastman

Without sharks, you take away the apex predator of the ocean, and you destroy the entire food chain. —
Peter Benchley

mean anything." She seemed subdued, sad. —
Peter Benchley

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

If you look at eggs, you will see that each one is almost round but not quite ... Nature's way of distinguishing eggs from large golf balls. —
Robert Benchley

This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises, promotions, and other signs of appreciation. —
Robert Benchley

Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings. —
Robert Benchley

Anything can happen, but it usually doesn't. —
Robert Benchley

Ellen Brody:
Wanna get drunk and fool around?
Brody:
Oh Yeah. —
Peter Benchley

To fantasies', he said. 'Tell me about yours.' His eyes were a bright, liquid blue, and his lips were parted in a half smile. —
Peter Benchley

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

We should be afraid of sharks half as much as sharks should be afraid of us. —
Peter Benchley

This is a work of fiction, and the people in it are fictitious. The ghosts are real. —
Nathaniel Benchley

I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry. —
Robert Benchley

I hope that 'Jaws' will have brought sharks into the public interest at a time when we desperately need to reevaluate our care for the environment. —
Peter Benchley

We are constantly being surprised that people did things well before we were born. —
Robert Benchley

There are two kinds of travel: first class and with children. —
Robert Benchley

Fascinations breeds preparedness, and preparedness, survival. —
Peter Benchley

Streets flooded. Please advise. —
Robert Benchley

Everything I've written is based on something that has happened to me or something that I know a great deal about. —
Peter Benchley

Come up fish. Come to Quint. —
Peter Benchley

I dive as much as I can. —
Peter Benchley

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

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. —
Robert Benchley

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. —
Robert Benchley

If you think that you have caught a cold, call in a good doctor. Call in three good doctors and play bridge. —
Robert Benchley

After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new book out of him each year. —
Robert Benchley

It was one of those plays in which all of the actors unfortunately enunciated very clearly. —
Robert Benchley

I don't believe in blaming inanimate objects for anything. —
Peter Benchley

Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth. —
Peter Benchley

A freelance is one who gets paid by the word
per piece or perhaps. —
Robert Benchley

The wise man thinks once before he speaks twice. —
Robert Benchley

Breaking the ice in the pitcher seems to be a feature of the early lives of all great men. —
Robert Benchley

Charlemagne either died or was born or did something with the Holy Roman Empire in 800. —
Robert Benchley

I can't bring myself to say, 'Well, I guess I'll be toddling along.' It isn't that I can't toddle. It's just that I can't guess I'll toddle. —
Robert Benchley

England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball, for example. —
Robert Benchley

Sharks are like ax-murderers, Martin. People react to them with their guts. There's something crazy and evil and uncontrollable about them. —
Peter Benchley

I'm a babe in the woods when it comes to the Internet. —
Peter Benchley

The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future. —
Peter Benchley

be possible that —
Victoria Benchley

An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens. —
Robert Benchley

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

The only cure for a real hangover is death. —
Robert Benchley

There are several ways to apportion the family income, all of them unsatisfactory. —
Robert Benchley

Hooper ladled chum, which sounded to Brody, every time it hit the water, like diarrhea. —
Peter Benchley

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

The pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicated piece of machinery with any success. —
Robert Benchley

What was it? What could it
His last thought was surprise. —
Peter Benchley

Twenty-five years ago nobody knew much about white sharks. —
Peter Benchley

We're going to need a bigger boat. —
Peter Benchley

If there is a streak of ham anywhere in an actor, Shakespeare will bring it out. —
Robert Benchley

You want to go easy on the suicide stuff - first thing you know, you'll ruin your health. —
Robert Benchley

The Great Arizona Desert is full of the bleaching bones of people who waited for me to start something. —
Robert Benchley

Don't go into the water if you're bleeding - at all, from anything, anywhere on your body. —
Peter Benchley

What had once seemed shallow and tedious now loomed in memory like paradise. —
Peter Benchley

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

Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline. —
Peter Benchley

If only those old walls could talk ... how boring they would be. —
Robert Benchley

I believe implicitly that every young man in the world is fascinated with either sharks or dinosaurs. —
Peter Benchley