Quotes by Edmund Clerihew Bentley
“The art of biography is different from geography. Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.”— Edmund Clerihew Bentley
“The art of biography is different from geography. Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.”— Edmund Clerihew Bentley
“Between what matters and what seems to matter, how should the world we know judge wisely?”— Edmund Clerihew Bentley
“What I like about Clive is that he is no longer alive. There is a great deal to be said for being dead.”— Edmund Clerihew Bentley
“The people of Spain think Cervantes equal to half-a-dozen Dantes; An opinion resented most bitterly by the people of Italy.”— Edmund Clerihew Bentley
“John Stuart Mill, by a mighty effort of will, overcame his natural bonhomie and wrote 'Principles of Political Economy.'”— Edmund Clerihew Bentley
“It was a weakness of Voltaire to forget to say his prayer, and one which to his shame he never overcame.”— Edmund Clerihew Bentley
“The daring and determination of the criminal are not mated with an equal intelligence.”— Edmund Clerihew Bentley
“I don't care a button for the hang of trousers. The only thing that is a satisfaction to me is to have my feet right.”— Edmund Clerihew Bentley
“Dante Alighieri seldom troubled a dairy. He wrote the 'Inferno' on a bottle of pernod.”— Edmund Clerihew Bentley
“I am not an authority on anything, not even on my own beautiful handwriting.”— Edmund Clerihew Bentley
“The giraffe, a stately beast, Seldom has a sore throat, to say the least.”— Edmund Clerihew Bentley
“Cecil B. de Mille, rather against his will, was persuaded to leave Moses out of the Wars of the Roses.”— Edmund Clerihew Bentley
“Sir Humphry Davy / Abominated gravy. / He lived in the odium / Of having discovered sodium.”— Edmund Clerihew Bentley
“George the Third / Ought never to have occurred. / One can only wonder / At so grotesque a blunder.”— Edmund Clerihew Bentley
“Between what matters and what seems to matter, how should the world we know judge wisely?”— Edmund Clerihew Bentley
“The people of Spain think Cervantes / Equal to half-a-dozen Dantes; / An opinion resented most bitterly / By the people of Italy.”— Edmund Clerihew Bentley
“What I like about Clive is that he is no longer alive. There is a great deal to be said for being dead.”— Edmund Clerihew Bentley