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Eric Bentley Quotes

«Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas»
«Sir Christopher Wren / Said, `I am going to dine with some men, / If anybody calls / Say I am designing St Paul's.'»
«Geography is about maps, / But Biography is about chaps.»
Author: Eric Bentley | Keywords: biography, chaps, geography
«Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsequently turns its back on bad and good alike.»
Author: Eric Bentley | About: Fashion | Keywords: subsequently
«If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so.»
Author: Eric Bentley | Keywords: on hand, say-so
«George the Third / Ought never to have occurred. / One can only wonder / At so grotesque a blunder.»
Author: Eric Bentley | Keywords: blunder
«I cannot think of any repartee, / I simply wag my great, long, furry ears.»
Author: Eric Bentley | Keywords: furrier, furry, repartee, wags
«What I like about Clive / Is that he is no longer alive. / There is a great deal to be said / For being dead.»
Author: Eric Bentley | Keywords: Clive