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.
ALAN BENNETTYou have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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If I had to sum up my work, I suppose that’s it really: I’m taking the pith out of reality.
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Why is it always the “intelligent” people who are socialists?
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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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I bet Tom Stoppard doesn’t have to do this’ or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling.’
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The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it’s on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.
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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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Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale.
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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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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Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
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One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human.
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Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
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Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already.
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I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
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My experience came before most of you were born.
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