You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.
ALAN BENNETTLife is generally something that happens elsewhere.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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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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If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
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A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
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If, for instance, we’d made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it.
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.
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However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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