Top 8 Quotes by E. C. Bentley

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

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

What Matters, Judging, World

E. C. Bentley (2015). “The Woman in Black”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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 have to be, because a lot of us can't take anything seriously unless you make it dull for them.

E. C. Bentley

Research, Dull, Matter

"Trent's Own Case". Book by E. C. Bentley and H. Warner Allen, Chapter XXI: "Aunt Judith Knits", 1936.

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

E. C. Bentley

Mean, Jeans, Serious

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, "and this is one of my true homes." It is no mystery for those philosophers who hold that all which we shall see, with all which we have seen and are seeing, exists already in an eternal now; that all those places are home to us which in the pattern of our life are twisting, in past, present and future, tendrils of remembrance round our heart-strings.

E. C. Bentley

Heart, Home, Past

"Trent's Own Case". Book by E. C. Bentley and H. Warner Allen, Chapter XV: "Eunice Makes a Clean Breast of It", 1936.

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

Care, Definitions, Worthwhile

"Trent's Own Case". Book by E. C. Bentley and H. Warner Allen, Chapter XV: "Eunice Makes a Clean Breast of It", 1936.

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

E. C. Bentley

Art, Different, Maps

'Biography for Beginners' (1905) introduction

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 class at St. Paul's School.

E. C. Bentley

School, Science, Class

'Biography for Beginners' (1905) 'Sir Humphrey Davy'