My experience came before most of you were born.
ALAN BENNETTMy films are about embarrassment.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left,
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I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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I think perhaps that’s why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners.
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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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Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
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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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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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You must take people as they come. Remember, too that though you will generally know more about the condition than the patient, it is the patient who has the condition and this if nothing else bestows on him or her a kind of wisdom.
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Books, bread and butter, mashed potato – one finishes what’s on one’s plate. That’s always been my philosophy.
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To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less…selfish.
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My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn’t normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge.
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Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.
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I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
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Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages – just don’t catch him at breakfast.
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