Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
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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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.
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And one of the historian’s jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be… even on the Holocaust.
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The thing I think about is that once you’ve done it, you then start to think about what you’re going to do next.
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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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Cloisters, ancient libraries … I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
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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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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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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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Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
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Of course they’re out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
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At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
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Put him in a nice detached villa and he’d never have written a word.
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God doesn’t do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, “Can I be excused the Crucifixion?” No!
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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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