So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
ALAN BENNETTWe don’t see it, and because we don’t see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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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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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn’t normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge.
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Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
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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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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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f they’d been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn’t have known they were born if they’d not towed the line!
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I dont know whether you’ve ever looked into a miner’s eyes for any length of time, that is. Because it is the loveliest blue you’ve ever seen.
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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My films are about embarrassment.
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Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this.
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
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