Here are some of the best lines attributed to Robert Benchley -

Humorist Robert Benchley (1889-1945) was a member of the Algonquin Roundtable along with Dorothy Parker with whom he once shared an office. He described himself as 'professionally lazy', but not many others can lay claim to being such a prolific short story author, screenplay writer, actor, reporter, radio show host, syndicated columnist, and drama critic for the New Yorker.

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Some of Benchley's best lines -

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

Too much wisdom gets on the wise man's nerves.

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

Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted.

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.

Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.

If Mr. Einstein doesn't like the natural laws of the universe, let him go back to where he came from.

Does the average man get enough sleep? What is 'enough sleep'? What is the 'average man'? What is 'does'?

Anything can happen, but it usually doesn't.

If there is one thing that I resent (and there is), it is to be told that I resent being told anything. It drives me crazy.

I am more the inspirational type of speller. I work on hunches rather than mere facts, and the result is sometimes open to criticism by purists.

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.

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