So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
ALAN BENNETTThe longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don’t.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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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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If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
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So, half a dozen of us tried – not all of us in history – and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.
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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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I dont know whether you’ve ever looked into a miner’s eyes for any length of time, that is. Because it is the loveliest blue you’ve ever seen.
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You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.
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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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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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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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