The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
ALAN BENNETTThe 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.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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A book, as it were, closes the book.
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One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
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The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.
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I’m for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.
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But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge.
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Of course my standards are out of date! That’s why they’re called standards.
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Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this.
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Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.
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One reads for pleasure…it is not a public duty.
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One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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It’s the one species I wouldn’t mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth.
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They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want to pen their saga untrammelled by life-threatening activities like trailing round Sainsbury’s, emptying the dishwasher or going to the nativity play.
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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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