Robert Benchley: Doing

Robert Benchley was American comedian. Explore interesting quotes on doing.

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“Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.”

Robert Benchley

Quoted in The Algonquin Wits, (1968) by R E Drennan, p. 5

“The way to go to the circus, however, is with someone who has seen perhaps one theatrical performance before in his life and that in the High School hall. … The scales of sophistication are struck from your eyes and you see in the circus a gathering of men and women who are able to do things as a matter of course which you couldn’t do if your life depended on it.”

Robert Benchley

LIFE magazine (14 April 1921)

“I do most of my work sitting down; that's where I shine.”

Robert Benchley

Quoted in The Algonquin Wits, (1968) by R E Drennan, p. 5

“At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn’t money and power in this world, and is casting about for joys that do not turn to dross in one’s hands.”

Robert Benchley

LIFE magazine (27 November 1924)

“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.”

Robert Benchley

Vanity Fair (February 1920)
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