Clichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
ALAN BENNETTClichés can be quite fun. That’s how they got to be clichés.
ALAN BENNETTHere I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin
ALAN BENNETTTo begin with, it’s true, she read with trepidation and some unease.
ALAN BENNETTStandards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.
ALAN BENNETTI can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
ALAN BENNETTBooks are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
ALAN BENNETTHis writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.
ALAN BENNETTOne of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
ALAN BENNETTMark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.
ALAN BENNETTI’m not “happy” but I’m not unhappy about it.
ALAN BENNETTI turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
ALAN BENNETTWe were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
ALAN BENNETTIt [Cambridge] wasn’t a holy grail in the sense that I’d never been to Cambridge.
ALAN BENNETTPolly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.
ALAN BENNETTThe trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
ALAN BENNETTI’m not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
ALAN BENNETT