Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
ALAN BENNETTSome local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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 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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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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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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I’ve never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
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You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated.
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The 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.
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I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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I suppose I’m the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it’s the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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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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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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