That is almost the definition of any friendship that is worthwhile - that we don't care a damn how you behave yourself.

- E. C. Bentley

The art of biography is different from geography. Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.

- E. C. Bentley

Between what matters and what seems to matter, how should the world we know judge wisely?

- E. C. Bentley

There are some places which, seen for the first time, yet seem to strike a chord of recollection. "I have been here before," we think to ourselves, "…

- E. C. Bentley

I know, if anyone does - all research workers know - how much is missed that really matters because reports have to be written in officialese. They h…

- E. C. Bentley

George theThird Ought never to have occurred. One can only wonder At so grotesque a blunder.

- E. C. Bentley

Sir Humphrey Davy Abominated gravy. He lived in the odium Of having discovered sodium. Said to have been written as a schoolboy during a chemistry cl…

- E. C. Bentley

Sir James Jeans Always says what he means He is really perfectly serious About the Universe being Mysterious.

- E. C. Bentley