I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
ALAN BENNETTThe majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it’s on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it’s in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one’s own.
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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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Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
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All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I’d got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.
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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
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The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it’s on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.
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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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I’m not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I’m conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge.
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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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