There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world.
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 is a device to ignite the imagination.
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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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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
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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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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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We still don’t like to admit the war was even partly our fault because so many of our people died.
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I tried to explain to her the significance of the great poet, but without much success,
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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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Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it’s in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one’s own.
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