So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
ALAN BENNETTNature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?
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It’s much easier to follow something that’s not been as successful as this.
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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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What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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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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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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[talking about the Holocaust] ‘But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained.
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Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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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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The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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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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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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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’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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