If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
ALAN BENNETTMark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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But then books, as I’m sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action.
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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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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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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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Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.
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The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you.
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We don’t see it, and because we don’t see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground.
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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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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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