Benchley is a surname, and may refer to:
- Henry Wetherby Benchley (1822-1867), American politician
- Nat Benchley (21st century), American actor
- Nathaniel Benchley (1915-1981), American author
- Peter Benchley (1940-2006), American author
- Robert Benchley (1889-1945), American humorist
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Famous quotes containing the word benchley:
“From a hasty glance through the various tests I figure it out that I would be classified in Group B, indicating “Low Average Ability,” reserved usually for those just learning to speak the English Language and preparing for a career of holding a spike while another man hits it.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)
“A man may take care of a furnace for twenty-five years and still forget to duck his head when he starts going down the cellar stairs.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)
“I am both a public and a private school boy myself, having always changed schools just as the class in English in the new school was taking up Silas Marner, with the result that it was the only book in the English language that I knew until I was eighteen—but, boy, did I know Silas Marner!”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)