You always know when you’re going to arrive. If you go by car, you don’t. Apart from anything else, I prefer cycling. It puts you in a good mood, I find.
ALAN BENNETTSo boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Over the years Miss Shepherd was visited by a succession of social workers so the character in the play is a composite figure.
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on; there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time.
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
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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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That’s a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.
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Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life.
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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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So, half a dozen of us tried – not all of us in history – and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.
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Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.
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