“If Christ were here now, there is one thing he would not be — a Christian.” — Mark Twain
Quotations
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“No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.” — Orville Wright
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“Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.” — Alexandre Dumas
Benchley in Venice
STREETS FULL OF WATER. PLEASE ADVISE.
— Robert Benchley, telegram from Venice
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“A period novel! About the Civil War! Who needs the Civil War now — who cares?” — Pictorial Review editor Herbert R. Mayes, turning down a prepublication serialization of Gone With the Wind, 1936
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“It isn’t necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.” — Groucho Marx
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“Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.” — Alfred Hitchcock
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“All great men are monsters.” — Honoré de Balzac
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“All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.” — Aristotle
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“Communism is like one big phone company.” — Lenny Bruce