Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories.
ALAN BENNETTDefinition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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However bad the weather, Dad never drove to church because Mam thought the sacrament might make him incapable on the return journey.
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I can walk. It’s just that I’m so rich I don’t need to.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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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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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.
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We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn’t obey the rules.
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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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[talking about the Holocaust] ‘But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained.
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A composite too are the neighbours, Pauline and Rufus, though I have made Rufus a publisher in remembrance of my neighbour, the late Colin Haycraft, the proprietor of Duckworth’s.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
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His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls.
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