Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
ALAN BENNETTI turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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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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Knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten.
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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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It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.
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We don’t see it, and because we don’t see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past.
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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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Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
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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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Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
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I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
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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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The liturgy is best treated and read as if it’s someone announcing the departure of trains.
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I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
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Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date?
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