Life is rather like a tin of sardines – we’re all of us looking for the key.
ALAN BENNETTSo boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds.
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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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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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.’ ‘But this is History. Distance yourselves.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
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Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.
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What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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