Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
ALAN BENNETTSo boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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You don’t put your life into your books, you find it there.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects.
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Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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I write plays about things that I can’t resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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It’s like going to a place that you’ve never been to before – you’ve got a picture of it and then you go there and that picture is totally wiped out by the reality.
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It’s subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.
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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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