Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by E.F. Benson

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English novelist E.F. Benson.

Last updated on April 14, 2025.

Edward Frederic Benson was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist and short story writer.

English - Novelist | July 24, 1867 - February 29, 1940

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...vicinity to the sea is desirable, because it is easier to do nothing by the sea than anywhere else, and because bathing and basking on the shore cannot be considered an employment but only an apotheosis of loafing. ("Expiation")

E.F. Benson

The hours of the morning between breakfast and lunch were the time which the inhabitants of Riseholme chiefly devoted to spying on each other.

E.F. Benson

There's many things in this world that will depress you, and make you good for nothing, if you take them seriously, and that cheer you up if you don't.

E.F. Benson

Vermouth always makes me brilliant unless it makes me idiotic.

E.F. Benson

When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.

E.F. Benson

An idea so luminous flashed across her brain that she almost thought the room had leaped into light.

E.F. Benson