Even in a jungle, lovely flowers will spring up here and there, such being the fecundity of nature, and however badly our pastors and masters run our…

- Eric Bentley

If melodrama is the quintessence of drama, farce is the quintessence of theatre. Melodrama is written. A moving image of the worldis provided by a wr…

- Eric Bentley

Ours is the age of substitutes: Instead of language we have jargon; instead of principles, slogans; and instead of genuine ideas, bright suggestions.

- Eric Bentley

Like dreams, farces show the disguised fulfillment of repressed wishes.

- Eric Bentley

Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsequently turns its back on bad and good alike.

- Eric Bentley

If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so.

- Eric Bentley

Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.

- Eric Bentley

A play has two authors, the playwright and the actor.

- Eric Bentley