Top 7 Eric Bentley Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Eric Bentley

2. “A play has two authors, the playwright and the actor.”

— Eric Bentley

3. “Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.”

— Eric Bentley

4. “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

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

— Eric Bentley

6. “Literature deals with morality but does not necessarily, does not, qua literature, help you to be more moral, either by precept or example. It makes you more aware. Which is to say that it makes you more human by making life more, not less, difficult. When you become more aware, the area of moral choice is widened. You can be a better man; you can also be a worse. Literature will not determine which. It is the equivalent of neither grace nor good works.”

— Eric Bentley

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

— Eric Bentley

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