Edmund Clerihew Bentley Quotes

E. C. Bentley was a popular English novelist and humorist, and inventor of the clerihew, an irregular form of humorous verse on biographical topics.

✵ 10. July 1875 – 30. March 1956

Works

Trent's Last Case
Trent's Last Case
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Trent's Own Case
Trent's Own Case
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
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Famous Edmund Clerihew Bentley Quotes

“Is it a cosmic law, d'you think, that conceited men's hats are always too small?”

7. "The Old-fashioned Apache"
Trent Intervenes (1938)

Edmund Clerihew Bentley Quotes about life

Edmund Clerihew Bentley Quotes

“[S]he had a singular spaciousness of mind in which nothing little or mean could live.”

12. "The Ordinary Hairpins"
Trent Intervenes (1938)

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

Source: Trent's Own Case (1936), Chapter XV: "Eunice Makes a Clean Breast of It"

“Sir Humphrey Davy
Abominated gravy.
He lived in the odium
Of having discovered sodium.”

Clerihews: Biography for Beginners (1905)

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