Robert Benchley: Quotes about people

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“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.”

Robert Benchley

Vanity Fair (February 1920)
Variant: 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.
Context: 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.

“A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated.”

Robert Benchley

"How to Get Things Done", Chips off the old Benchley (1949)

“There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.”

Robert Benchley

"What Does It Mean?" in After 1903 — What? (1938)

“Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony.”

Robert Benchley

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.”

Robert Benchley

Vanity Fair (February 1920)
Source: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/02/07/two-classes/