Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
ALAN BENNETTStandards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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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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[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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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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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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We don’t see it, and because we don’t see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past.
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
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You must take people as they come. Remember, too that though you will generally know more about the condition than the patient, it is the patient who has the condition and this if nothing else bestows on him or her a kind of wisdom.
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It [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
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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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