The Waste Land not figuring very largely in Mam’s scheme of things. “The thing is,” I said finally, “he won the Nobel Prize.” “Well,” she said, with that unerring grasp of inessentials which is the prerogative of mothers, “I’m not surprised. It was a beautiful overcoat.”
ALAN BENNETTThe Waste Land not figuring very largely in Mam’s scheme of things. “The thing is,” I said finally, “he won the Nobel Prize.” “Well,” she said, with that unerring grasp of inessentials which is the prerogative of mothers, “I’m not surprised. It was a beautiful overcoat.”
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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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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My films are about embarrassment.
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And one of the historian’s jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be… even on the Holocaust.
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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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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us 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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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
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If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
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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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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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