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.
ALAN BENNETTf they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
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Illogically, I tend to assume that if you ( Philip Larkin) dream of caning schoolgirls bottoms, it disqualifies you from dismissing half the nation as work-shy.
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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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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Above literature?’ said the Queen. ‘Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
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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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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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I’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
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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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My experience came before most of you were born.
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We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place.
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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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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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