In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.
ALAN BENNETTHistory is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
More Alan Bennett Quotes
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Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion.
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I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.
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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
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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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I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
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I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
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At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like.
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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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History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
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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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Memories are not shackles, Franklin, they are garlands.
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The days weren’t long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
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You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.
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Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count.
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It’s subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.
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