Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
ALAN BENNETTI think perhaps that’s why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
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A photograph on every mantlepiece. And all this mourning has veiled the truth. It’s not so much lest we forget, as lest we remember.
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Above literature?’ said the Queen. ‘Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
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We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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Over the years Miss Shepherd was visited by a succession of social workers so the character in the play is a composite figure.
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The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
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Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
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[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point.
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life.
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The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.
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I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
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