To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
ALAN BENNETTNature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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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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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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I don’t talk very well. With writing, you’ve time to get it right. Also I’ve found the more I talk the less I write, and if I didn’t write no one would want me to talk anyway.
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I bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
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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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One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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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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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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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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f they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!
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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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